American Film Cycles : Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures /

A series of movies that share images, characters, settings, plots, or themes, film cycles have been an industrial strategy since the beginning of cinema. While some have viewed them as "subgenres," mini-genres, or nascent film genres, Amanda Ann Klein argues that film cycles are an entity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klein, Amanda Ann, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Gesellschaft
Kulturleben
Serienfilm
Filmgenre
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Film genres.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Cinema > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Genres cinematographiques > États-Unis.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States.
Film genres > United States.
USA.
USA
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: love at first sight
  • Real gangsters do cry: a cyclical approach to film genres
  • A dying serpent : understanding how film cycles change over time
  • I was a teenage film cycle: the relationship between youth subcultures and film cycles
  • Not only screen but the projector as well: the relationship between race and film cycles
  • Conclusion: love, disdain, and the future of cycle studies.

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