Books in French are on www.livres-cinema.info
Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema
Edited by Silvia Dibeltulo and Ciara Barrett
(0 vote)Average rating:
| 0 | rating |  = We can do without |
| 0 | rating |  = Good book |
| 0 | rating |  = Excellent book |
| 0 | rating |  = Unique / a reference |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volume’s content―the films, genres, and movements explored, as well as methodologies used in their analysis―is diverse and, crucially, up-to-date with contemporary film-making practice and theory. Significantly, the collection extends existing scholarly discourse on film genre beyond its historical bias towards a predominant focus on Hollywood cinema, on the one hand, and a tendency to treat “other” national cinemas in isolation and/or as distinct systems of production, on the other.
In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.
About the authors:
Silvia Dibeltulo is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her work centres on screen representations of identity, specifically in terms of ethnicity and gender, film genre, audience studies, cinema heritage, and digital humanities.Ciara Barrett is University Fellow in Film Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research focuses on female performance, representation, and authorship in genre cinema and digital media.
See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan
> From the same authors:
Italian Cinema Audiences (2022)
Histories and Memories of Cinema-going in Post-war Italy
by Daniela Treveri Gennari, Catherine O'Rawe, Danielle Hipkins and Silvia Dibeltulo
> On a related topic:
Film, Cinema, Genre (2021)
The Steve Neale Reader
by Steve Neale, Frank Krutnik and Richard Maltby
Subject: Genre > All Genres
Hollywood's Melodramatic Imagination (2021)
Film Noir, the Western and Other Genres from the 1920s to the 1950s
by Geoff Mayer
Subject: Genre > All Genres
Encyclopedia of Film Themes, Settings and Series (2009)
by Richard B. Armstrong and Mary Willems Armstrong
Subject: Genre > All Genres
The Shifting Definitions of Genre (2008)
Essays on Labeling Films, Television Shows and Media
Dir. Lincoln Geraghty and Mark Jancovich
Subject: Genre > All Genres
Back
