Hollywood Genres

Hollywood Genres PDF Author: Thomas Schatz
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Book Description
Schatz analyzes the studio system and tells what film genres mean in a general and theoretical way. Describing some important movie genres in Hollywood's "Golden Era", -- the Western, the gangster film, detective movies, screwball comedies, the musical and the family melodrama -- he surveys selected films and the work of directors associated with them.