Film Genre: The Basics - Paperback
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Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day.
Barry Keith Grant is professor emeritus of film studies and popular culture at Brock University, Ontario, Canada and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films (2010), 100 Science Fiction Films (2013), and 100 American Horror Films (2022). His edited books include Film Genre Reader I, II, III, and IV (1986, 1995, 2003, and 2012), The Dread of Difference: Gender in the Horror Film (1996), and Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film before Genre Theory (2016).
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