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Rapha?lle Moine. Cinema Genre
Blackwell Publishing, USA, UK, Australia, 2008. 272 pages. Language: English. Translated from French by Alistair Fox and Hilary Radner.

Written in a clear, engaging, jargon-free style, this volume offers a cutting-edge theoretical overview of the topic of genre as practiced in British, American and French film criticism. Organized by a series of simple but fundamental questions, the book uses numerous examples from classic Hollywood cinema (the weste, drama, musical comedy, and film noir) as well as some more contemporary examples from European or Asian cinema that are so often neglected by other studies in the field. How do we characterize genre and what are its various functions? In what ways does genre give a film its identity? How do genres emerge? What is the cultural significance of genre and how does it circulate within and across national boundaries? Informative and user-friendly, Moine's book is accessible to general readers and adapts easily to a wide range of teaching approaches.

Contents:

Translators’ Note
Foreword by Janet Staiger
Introduction

In the Genre Jungle
Cinematic Genre: An Empirical Category
Every Use Has Its Own Typology
An Impossible Typology?

Looking for the Rules of Genre
Looking for Genre’s Formal Rules
Genre: An Intertextual Phenomenon
In Search of the Structures of Genre
Semantic-Syntactic Definitions of Genre

What is the Purpose of Genres?
A Production Tool
The Social Functions of Genre
The Communicative Function of Genre

The Generic Identities of a Film
The Relations Between Film and Genre
The Uses of Generic Identity
The Mixing of Genres: Pluri-generic Attributes

How To Conceptualize the History of a Genre?
To Put an End to the Theory of Generic Evolution
The Birth of a Cinematic Genre
Hybridization and Mutation of Genres

Genres in Context
Cultural Identity and the Circulation of Genres
Generic Regimes

Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Filmography
Index
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