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Genre (2014) 47 (3): 335–356.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Lee Clark Mitchell Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men (2005), like Ethan Coen and Joel Coen's film adaptation (2007), poses two genres against one another, drawing on film noir techniques to defy what their Western materials seem to solicit. Fleeting gestures at wide-open landscape...
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Genre (2018) 51 (2): 133–158.
Published: 01 July 2018
...W. D. Phillips Aesthetic histories of the stag film tend to place it in a straightforward lineage of pornographic imagery such that the film genre emerges more or less fully formed. Discursive histories, however, have noted that the term does not concretize in relation to the film form until...
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Genre (2021) 54 (3): 341–367.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Lynch's unique position within the history of film noir as a genre. Vico's poetic developmental scheme, which relies on the “four master tropes” (metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony), is adapted to the historical evolution of film noir as a genre. The essay then translates Vico's ricorso...
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Genre (2017) 50 (3): 343–370.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of “domestic containment.” In Requiem for a Nun Faulkner returned to the themes of the woman’s film in his own Hollywood-inspired melodrama. Far from creating an “homage,” however, Faulkner drew on the drive for social conformity inherent in the genre but redeployed its tropes in a subversive fashion to launch...
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Genre (2020) 53 (2): 135–157.
Published: 01 July 2020
... of “novelism” (adjacent to notions like lyricism and essayism) as a flexible and mobile mode of associative world-building across the arts. We can see novelism at play in the intermedial history of how novelistic forms and concerns informed the cinematic genre of the essay film. By recovering that history...
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Genre (2013) 46 (3): 419–442.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in Perspective . London : Longman . Bourget Jean-Loup . 2003 . “Social Implications in the Hollywood Genres.” In Film Genre Reader III , edited by Grant Barry Keith , 51 – 59 . Austin : University of Texas Press . Brooks Peter . 1976 . The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac...
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Genre (2019) 52 (2): 109–125.
Published: 01 July 2019
... in this comparison is that, arguably, Bierce’s short story is the least dark of the three versions of what may be called the mood and genre of sardonic death, for it only denounces (especially in terms of free will versus determinism) the doomed man, while Enrico’s film elicits sympathy and Serling’s episode empathy...
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Genre (2023) 56 (2): 233–256.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Jacqueline O'Dell Abstract Spike Jonze's 2013 film Her , about a letter writer's romance with his operating system, is often read as a posthuman meditation on universal concerns about intimacy. Drawing from Sylvia Wynter's work on genres of the human, this article argues that the protagonist...
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Genre (2014) 47 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 April 2014
...-en-scène, sound track, camera work, and montage, the essay argues that Roth and Coixet roughly match genre to ideological style: late style inscribes the failed confession in the novel, while timeliness rewrites the film as an elegy. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited...
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Genre (2002) 35 (2): 181–219.
Published: 01 June 2002
... . Bordwell David . “A Case for Cognitivism.” Iris 9 ( Spring 1989 ): 11 - 40 . Cawelti John G. “Chinatown and Generic Transformation in Recent American Films.” Film Genre Reader 2 . Ed. Grant Barry Keith . 227 - 45 . Chandler Daniel “An Introduction to Genre...
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Genre (2021) 54 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 July 2021
... this question through a close reading of Marisha Pessl's Night Film (2013). Through the novel's intricate staging of different forms of immersion that is made possible by its extended length, this article argues that Pessl and the horror genre more generally seek to establish a difference between something like...
FIGURES
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Genre (2018) 51 (1): 27–52.
Published: 01 April 2018
...), and it is pervasive in film studies,
where feminism, queer theory, and gender studies influence much contemporary
scholarship. In this article I take up Orwell’s suggestion that brutal crime fiction
is a genre that promotes regressive masculine “power- worship,” and — with a par-
ticular emphasis on the French...
Journal Article
Genre (2022) 55 (3): 235–258.
Published: 01 December 2022
... WarGames narrative. The novel's specific passages A–H could all be described in terms of genre. To the film's dominating thriller and sci-fi components, the novel adds many elements found in the love story (B, E, F, G) and the school story (A, C, D, G, and H). The latter genre also gives the novel...
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Genre (2016) 49 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of the stage
musical, see Lindsay and Crouse 2010. The film version has had a particularly global life. Moreover,
I have found that the more expansive (not merely longer) film is gratifyingly self-conscious about the
pathos of its global escapist ambitions.
Genre, Vol. 49, No. 1 April 2016
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Genre (2005) 38 (3): 309–326.
Published: 01 September 2005
... GENRE
since been overdue for the British people to learn to love these new realities and
accept their own much reduced status in relationship to the globe's sole remain-
ing superpower. Indeed, this film, as Franco Moretti suggests of the classical bil-
dungsroman (a genre to which...
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Genre (2005) 38 (4): 327–352.
Published: 01 December 2005
... RIGHTS OF REPRODUCTION IN ANY FORM RESERVED.
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of wise positioning for successful integration" (554).
Investigating globalized post-nationalism in Hollywood film, we see its abso-
lute conspicuousness, especially in gargantuan-grossing films of 1994...
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Genre (2009) 42 (3-4): 119–143.
Published: 01 September 2009
... critics, notably Engles, have argued that Selvy is
the character who most thoroughly absorbs the role of protagonist as defined by
a variety of genres, including the thriller and the western (73). The final scene of
the film, which positions the audience in the film looking out, however, makes...
Journal Article
Genre (2014) 47 (3): 379–405.
Published: 01 December 2014
... by contextualizing it in its genre. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited 28 Days Later … . 2002 . Directed by Boyle Danny . London : DNA Films . 28 Weeks Later . 2007 . Directed by Fresnadillo Juan Carlos . London : DNA Films . The American Nightmare . 2000...
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Genre (2014) 47 (2): 141–170.
Published: 01 July 2014
... in mind, Pynchon takes a much larger step
back with Against the Day by pushing for an understanding of the novel form
as a popular medium preceding and prefiguring film and television. And like
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Pynchon’s depictions of film in Gravity’s Rainbow and television...
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Genre (2006) 39 (2): 352–357.
Published: 01 June 2006
...William B. Covey Conrad Mark T. , Ed. The Philosophy of Film Noir . Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky , 2006 . xv , plus 248 pp. COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 352 GENRE
Mark T. Conrad, Ed. The Philosophy...
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