Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System by Thomas Schatz

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Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System by Thomas Schatz

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Zusammenfassung

Presents, as a thesis, that a genre approach provides a means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating Hollywood cinema. The genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process is sustained through genres, those formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film.

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Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System by Thomas Schatz

The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.

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ISBN 13 9780075536239
ISBN 10 0075536234
Titel Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System
Autor Thomas Schatz
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Mcgraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Erscheinungsjahr 1981-12-16
Seitenanzahl 300
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