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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Manuel Betancourt Given the Argentine writer Manuel Puig's penchant for using and skewering studio Hollywood films and stars in novels such as Betrayed by Rita Hayworth , he has often been understood as partaking in the discourse of camp. This article takes as a jump-off point the contention...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 343–370.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Ben Robbins This article analyzes William Faulkner’s 1951 prose drama hybrid narrative Requiem for a Nun as an adaptation of two “women’s films” that he worked on as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1940s, The Damned Don’t Cry (completed in 1941, released in 1950) and Mildred Pierce (completed...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 July 2014
... thousand pages of an eleven-hundred-page novel. Their meeting in 1920s Hollywood demonstrates not only the historical collision of print and visual media but also the latter's eclipse of the former. Reading Merle's Integroscope as anticipating later Internet technology, this essay ends by grappling...
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Genre (2018) 51 (2): 133–158.
Published: 01 July 2018
... the broader composition of male-dominated viewing traditions, and finally, argues that the genre becomes ultimately concentrated into the familiar gendered, alternative viewing spaces of stags as a function of both the increasing moral restrictions and the industrial reorganization of Hollywood cinema...
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Genre (2005) 38 (4): 327–352.
Published: 01 December 2005
... , 1999 . Balio Tino . `` `A Major Presence in All of the World Markets': The Globalization of Hollywood in the 1990s '' Contemporary Hollywood Cinema . Eds. Neale Steve Smith Murray . New York : Routledge , 1998 . Buell Frederick . `` Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist...
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Genre (2005) 38 (4): 389–412.
Published: 01 December 2005
... Dean E . `` A Little Bit of Hollywood Starring India .'' New York Times 27 Apr. 2001 : B1, B5 . Ott Brian Aoki Eric . `` Counter-imagination as Interpretive Practice: Futuristic Fantasy and The Fifth Element .'' Women's Studies in Communication 27.2 ( 2004 ): 149 - 177 [1...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 341–367.
Published: 01 December 2021
... as a mocking satire or parody of the melodramatic. This view also appreciates Lynch's films themselves as postmodern, self-conscious exposés on the artificiality of the Hollywood fantasy-production industry in general and a critique of the classical noir mythology specifically. The other side—the side usually...
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Genre (2007) 40 (1-2): 157–180.
Published: 01 March 2007
... in cinemas in December 2002, it was greeted with great critical fanfare. The film focuses on the travails of a creatively blocked screenwriter who struggles to adapt a nonfic- tion book into a Hollywood screenplay, only to end up writing about his inability to write. Adaptation's artful and complex...
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 309–326.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Origins of Our Times . New York : Verso , 1994 . Cavell Stanley . Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1981 . Cohen Abner . `` A Polyethnic London Carnival as a Contested Cultural Performance .'' Ethnic and Racial...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 352–357.
Published: 01 June 2006
... than his source because Richardson's book argues that noirs and semi-documentaries of the 1940s and 50s are not stylized at all, but rather grounded in the material world, shot on location, and markers of "the peak period of faithful visual realism" (181) for Hollywood movies. Holt next cites...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 July 2023
... Gore . (1981) 2018 . Creation . New York : Knopf Doubleday. Kindle . Vidal Gore . (1990) 2011 . Hollywood . New York : Knopf Doubleday. Kindle . Vidal Gore . (1991a) 1993 . “ H. L. Mencken the Journalist .” In Vidal 1993b: 750 – 67 . Vidal Gore . (1991b...
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 197–210.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., Phillip Wegner's "The Pretty Woman Goes Global: Or, Learning to Love 'Americanization' in Notting Hill" examines it as it receives a Hollywood treatment. Wegner's study of the 1999 film Notting Hill, seemingly an uncom- plicated Julia Roberts romantic comedy, answers a very complex political ques...
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Genre (2008) 41 (1-2): 151–169.
Published: 01 March 2008
... , 2002 . ---. “ The True Hollywood Left .” 2007 . Lacan.com . May 2008 . < http://www.lacan.com/zizhollywood.htm > . CONSPIRACY, THEORY, GENRE: COLLECTING, THE PARALYSIS OF INTERPRETATION, AND LYRICAL TRUTH IN JOHN SAYLES'S SILVER CITY WESLEY BEAL, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA...
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Genre (2022) 55 (1): 67–71.
Published: 01 April 2022
... meter constitutive of the Aeneid and Hollywood's scoring of settler-colonialist fantasy. The ploy was an obvious and effective plea to keep our attention fixed on the units of Virgil's poetry, meter being just one element among many others. But I've never forgotten the generative friction...
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
... an idiosyncratic feature of postwar French cinematic or textual fiction. It has indeed been treated as a defining characteristic of fictions ranging from classic American westerns and film noir (Vernet 1993) to post- 9/11 Hollywood action cinema (Purse 2011, 110). In addition to reading Delon’s star power...
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Genre (2020) 53 (3): 229–240.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... Reading flu- ently across Hollywood, sitcoms, and social media, Chasar shows that histories of poetry have been bookish, ignoring its long history of being a testing ground in the development, emergence, and cultural mainstreaming of new media (10). As long as mainstream poetry criticism and official...
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Genre (2022) 55 (2): 85–115.
Published: 01 July 2022
..., and the City: Archives, Databases, and Film Historiography .” European Journal of Cultural Studies 14 , no. 3 : 355 – 72 . Hassler-Forrest Dan A. 2017 . “ Roads Not Taken in Hollywood's Comic Book Movie Industry: Popeye , Dick Tracy , and Hulk .” In The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 383–387.
Published: 01 June 2002
... the for- mulas of the science fiction digest market, the less restrictive but easily forgotten men's magazines which sought to emulate Playboy in the 1960s, and the well- documented frustrations of writing for Hollywood and episodic television. By the late 60s, when he began reaping rapturous praise...
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Genre (2017) 50 (2): 219–238.
Published: 01 July 2017
... . Tsitsopoulou Vassiliki . 2000 . “Greekness, Gender Stereotypes, and the Hollywood Musical in Jules Dassin's Never on Sunday.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 18 , no. 1 : 79 – 93 . Vincendeau Ginette . 2014 . “Sundays and Cybèle: Innocent Love?” The Criterion Collection , October 1...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 393–418.
Published: 01 December 2013
... . Hostile Aliens, Hollywood, and Today's News: 1950s Science Fiction and 9/11 . New York : Algora . Meskell Lynn . 2000 . “The Practice and Politics of Archaeology in Egypt.” In Ethics and Anthropology: Facing Future Issues in Human Biology, Globalism, and Cultural Property , edited...