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Film/Genre by Rick Altman; British Film Institute is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Film/Genre about?

<p><p>This text seeks to revise notions of film genre. It connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. In a critique of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played. Recognizing that the very term "genre" has different meaning for different groups, he bases his genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discusses a range of films from "The Great Train Robbery" to "Star Wars", and from "The Jazz Singer" to "The Player". <p></p>

Who reads Film/Genre?

Author

Rick Altman; British Film Institute

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) British Film Institute

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781838715809

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Sports, Literary Fiction