Genre Bibliography, Filmography and Webliography

Repetition or Revelation: Film Genre and Society. 2003

Bibliography, Filmography  & Webliography

Bibliography 

Adorno, Theodor. 1994. The Stars Down to Earth. London: Routledge

Altman, Rick. 1997 ‘Cinema and Genre’. In Nowell - Smith, Geoffrey. Ed : Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford : Oxford University Press

Ang, Ien. 1991. Desperately Seeking The Audience. London: Routledge

Austen, Guy. 1996. Contemporary French Cinema. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Bordwell, David. Staiger, Janet and Thompson, Kristin. (1985 ) The Classical Hollywood Cinema. London: Routledge

Branston, Gill. 2000. Cinema and Cultural Modernity. Milton Keynes : Open University Press

Brown, Geoff. 2000. ‘Something for Everyone: British film Culture in the 1990s’. Murphy, Robert. Ed. British Cinema of the 90s. London: BFI

Bukatman, Scott. 1994. Terminal Identity. Durham North Carolina: Duke University Press

Cowie, Elizabeth. 1993 . ‘Film Noir and Women’. In Copjec Joan Ed : 1993 : Shades of Noir . London: Verso

Cook, Pam Ed. 1985 (First edition). The Cinema Book . London: British Film Institute

Corrigan, Timothy.1991. A Cinema Without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam . New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press

Christie, Ian. 2003. Interview with Martin Scorsese. Sight and Sound. January. p22

Elsaesser, Thomas. 1997. ‘Germany the Wiemar Years’ in Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey. Ed: Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford : Oxford University Press

Felski, Rita. 1999-2000. ‘ The Invention of Everyday Life’. New Formations, No 39, pp. 15-31

Hake , Sabine. 2002. German National Cinema. London : Routledge

Hanson, Stuart. 2000. ‘ Spoilt for Choice? Multiplexes in the1990s. Murphy, Robert. Ed. British Cinema of the 90s. London: BFI

Higson, Andrew and Maltby, Richard. 1999. ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’ : An Introduction’. In Higson, Andrew and Maltby Richard. ‘Film Europe’ and ‘Film America’. Exeter: Exeter University Press

<!--[if !supportLists]-->Hofman, Katja. 2002. ‘Does my gun look big in this?’ Sight and Sound March

Katz, Ephraim. 2001 4th Ed . Macmillan International Film Encyclopedia. Basingstoke : Macmillan

<!--[if !supportLists]--> <!--[endif]-->Mark Le Fanu. 2003. ‘The dream life of architects’.  <!--[endif]-->Sight and Sound March

Luckett, Moya. 2000. ‘Image and Nation in 1990s British Cinema’. In Murphy, Robert. British Cinema in the 90s. London: British Film Institute

<!--[if !supportLists]--> <!--[endif]-->McNab, Geoffrey. 2002. Review of Charlotte Gray. Sight and Sound . March. p 41.

Moretti, Franco. 2001. ‘Planet Hollywood’. New Left Review, Volume 2 No 9 May / June. pp 90-101

Neale, Steve. 2000. Genre and Hollywood. London: Routledge

Neale, Steve and Krutnik Frank : 1990 : Popular Film and Television Comedy: Routledge : London

Nichols, Bill . 1976. ‘Introduction’. In Nichols Bill Ed: Movies and Methods . California University Press : Berkley

Nichols, Bill. 1985. ‘Introduction’. In Nichols Bill Ed : Movies and Methods: Volume Two . California University Press : Berkley

Nowell - Smith, Geoffrey. Ed: 1997 : Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford : Oxford University Press

Pendakur, Manjunath and Subramanyam, Radha. 2002. ‘Indian Cinema Beyond National Borders’. In Jordan, Tim and Pile, Steve eds. 2002. Social Change. Oxford: Blackwell

Prawer, S.S. 2002. The Blue Angel. London: BFI

<!--[if !supportLists]-->Silverstone, R. 1994. Television and Everyday Life. London: Routledge

Smith, Murray. 2002. Trainspotting. London. British Film Institute.

Sobchack, Vivian. 1997. ‘The Fantastic’. In Nowell - Smith, Geoffrey. Ed : Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford : Oxford University Press

Street, Sarah. 1997. British National Cinema. London : Routledge

Sturken, Marita. 2000. Thelma and Louise. London: British Film Institute

Tasker, Yvonne. ‘Authorship and contemporary film culture’. Tasker, Yvonne. Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers . Routledge : London

Todd, Peter. 2000. ‘The British Film Industry in the 1990s’. Murphy, Robert. Ed. British Cinema of the 90s. London: BFI

Tudor, Andrew. 1976. ‘Genre and Critical Methodology’. Nichols Bill Ed: Movies and Methods : California University Press : Berkley

Williams, Alan. 1992. Republic of Images: A History of French Film-making. Cambridge Mass: Harvard

Bibliographical Links to books not used but clearly important for Genre Theory

For teachers / FE Lecturers. The BFI Education and Resources on Genre:

Link to the Wallflower Press' useful 'Short Cuts' Series Number   33 | FILM GENRE From Iconography to IdeologyBarry Keith Grant

Refiguring American Genres:

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6928.html

International Journal of Communication 1 2007. Online review of Daniel Biltereyst & Philippe Meers, (eds.), Film/TV/Genre, Ghent Academia Press, 2004, 209 pp, €22,00
(paperback). 

http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/31/4

Link to

Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition

http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198159834

Filmography

Films mentioned in the text by title and year of release.

About a Boy (2002)

American Beauty (2001)

Billy Elliot (2000)

Bladerunner (1982)

Black Widow (1987)

Blazing Saddles (1971)

Body Heat (1981)

Bonnie & Clyde (1967)

Brassed Off (1996)

Brief Encounter (1945)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Calamity Jane (1953)

Charlotte Gray (2002)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Dirty Pretty Things (2002

Double Indemnity (1944)

East is East (1999)

Easy Rider (1969)

Elizabeth (1998)

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

1492 (1992)

Gangs of New York (2003)

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Gosford Park (2002)

It Happened One Night (1934)

La Reine Margot (1994)

Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Life is Beautiful (1998)

M*A*S*H (1970)

Metropolis (1925)

Michael Collins (1996)

Minority Report (2002)

Modern Times (1936)

Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1978)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Mulholland Drive ( 2001)

Muriel’s Wedding (1994)

Night at the Opera (1935)

North by North West (1959)

Oklahoma (1955)

Police Academy

Phantom Engine (1935)

Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

Psycho (1960)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Saviour ( 1997)

Secrets and Lies (1996)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Shallow Grave (1995)

Silverado (1985)

Soldier Blue (1970)

Some Like it Hot (1959)

Stagecoach (1939)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Terminator the Last Judgement (1991)

The Blue Angel (1929-1930)

The Full Monty (1997)

The Pelican Brief (1993)

The Producers (1968)

The Return of Martin Guerre (1983)

The Searchers (1956)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Thelma and Louise (1991)

Titanic (1997)

Trainspotting (1995)

Webliography

Preface: At time of writing I didn't use the web for research purposes however this section will be developed as it is now a crucial part of everyday research with JISC backed organisations such as Intute organising along the lines of genre. 

Link to Intute 

http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=artifact666

Links to New Left Review Article by Franco Moretti who as a literary professor considers the role of genre in literature. This article is a later one than the one on NLR Series 2 Volume 5 'Markets of the Mind.

http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2440

'Markets of the Mind' link http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2273

Another link to a Moretti article this time considering cultural geography and film genres. (Very interesting to me anyway :-) )

http://newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2324

Link to Article by Tom O'Regan on the Crocodile Dundee phenomenon

http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/Croc.html

Link to Carol Laseur's honours dissertation Chapter 1 of The Field of Genre & Australian filmic Texts. several other chapters are also available online making an excellent open access resource!

http://wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au/ReadingRoom/film/laseur/chap1.html

Link to: Favorite Films and Film Genres As A Function of
Race, Age, and Gender from the Journal of Media Psychology:

http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/sfischo/media3.html

An Introduction to Genre Theory by Daniel Cahndler from Aberystwyth University: 

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre.html

Link to the Goethe Institute on documentary films:

http://www.goethe.de/kue/flm/thm/flg/en964789.htm

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