@article {590, title = {A Semantic/Syntactic Approach to Film Genre}, journal = {Cinema Journal}, volume = {23}, year = {1984}, note = {+ pdf}, month = {1984}, pages = {6{\textendash}18}, keywords = {evolution, film, genre, history, Hollywood, interpretive community, semiotics}, author = {Altman, Rick} } @book {591, title = {Film/Genre}, year = {1999}, note = {+}, month = {1999}, publisher = {British Film Institute}, organization = {British Film Institute}, address = {London}, keywords = {Aristotle, evolution, film, genre, literature, mixed, pragmatic, process, semantic, stability, syntactic, Todorov}, isbn = {0-85170-717-3}, author = {Altman, Rick} } @booklet {674, title = {An Introduction to Genre Theory}, volume = {2007}, year = {1997}, month = {1997}, publisher = {University of Wales, Aberystwyth}, keywords = {film, genre, television}, url = {http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/intgenre/intgenre.html}, author = {Chandler, Daniel} } @article {686, title = {Introduction}, journal = {New Literary History}, volume = {34}, year = {2003}, note = {introduction to special issue on Theorizing Genres I}, month = {2003}, pages = {v{\textendash}xv}, keywords = {anthology, Bakhtin, case history, film, folktale, genre, history, Wells}, author = {Cohen, Ralph} } @booklet {706, title = {Interactive Influence of Genre Familiarity, Star Power, and Critics{\textquoteright} Reviews in the Cultural Goods Industry: The Case of Motion Pictures}, howpublished = {Psychology and Marketing}, volume = {22}, year = {2005}, note = {+ pdf}, month = {2005}, pages = {203{\textendash}223}, abstract = {Academic research pertaining to the marketing of cultural productssuch as Broadway shows, books, music, and movies has identified a product{\textquoteright}s genre (or type), star pow^er, and critics{\textquoteright} reviews as important factors influencing the market performance of an individual product. Prior research, however, has not investigated the joint influences of these factors. The current study extends previous research by empirically investigating the managerially relevant interactive influences of these factors within the context of the motion-picture industry. For example, should producers of more familiar genre movies, such as dramas and comedies, feature popular, but expensive, stars? Real-world data from two distinct time periods are used to test the hypotheses. The findings are consistent across the two time periods and reveal that for more familiar genre movies, star power and the valence of critics{\textquoteright} reviews have less impact on the movie{\textquoteright}s performance in the market. In contrast, for the less familiar genre movies, stronger (vs. weaker) star power and more (vs. less) positive reviews have positive influence on the market performance. Further, for movies with less star power, the valence of critics{\textquoteright} reviews has no impact on the performance. In contrast, for movies {\textquoteright}with greater star power, more (less) positive reviews have positive (negative) influence on movie performance. Managerial and theoretical implications, along with limitations of the findings and directions for future research, are offered. }, keywords = {commodity, cultural product, film, genre, genre movie, product type}, author = {Desai, Kalpesh Kaushik and Basuroy, Suman} } @article {1188, title = {Riding Off into the Sunrise: Genre Contingency and the Origin of the Chinese Western}, journal = {PMLA}, volume = {122}, year = {2007}, month = {October 2007}, pages = {1482-98}, chapter = {1482}, abstract = {

The paradoxical dependence of genre histories on historically accidental acts of naming and on transcendental critical imagination is demonstrated by the Chinese western, a little-understood genre that has become a major part of Chinese-language cinema over the past two decades. After the genre was proposed in 1984 by the Chinese film theorist Zhong Dianfei, as a realist reaction against the ideological excesses of the Cultural Revolution, its ambiguous status as a Hollywood import quickly became a proxy for larger cultural battles over China\&$\#$39;s place in an American-dominated international cultural system. Moreover, despite assurances by Zhong and other critics that the genre was not susceptible to Hollywood influence, the production history of the genre from the late 1980s to the present demonstrates a pattern of generic influence and eventual fusion that tracks Chinese state-owned studios\&$\#$39; evolution from subsidized propaganda organs to participants in a globalized entertainment industry.

}, keywords = {american western film, china, dramatic arts, film, genre study, nationalism, western china}, issn = {0030-8129}, doi = {10.1632/pmla.2007.122.5.1482}, author = {Daniel Fried} } @book {1271, title = {Food, film and culture: a genre study}, year = {2006}, pages = {215}, publisher = {McFarland \& Company}, organization = {McFarland \& Company}, address = {Jefferson, NC}, keywords = {film, food studies}, issn = {9780786426164}, author = {James R Keller} } @book {834, title = {Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond}, year = {2005}, note = {+}, month = {2005}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, organization = {Edinburgh University Press}, address = {Edinburgh}, keywords = {film, genre, horror, melodrama, musical, noir, science ficion, transgenre, Western}, isbn = {0-7486-1903-8}, author = {Langford, Barry} } @article {1243, title = {Adaptation, the genre}, journal = {Adaptation}, volume = {1}, year = {2008}, pages = {106-120}, abstract = {

Instead of considering film and television adaptations in the context of the source texts they are adapting, this essay proposes another context for their reception and analysis: the genre of adaptation itself. Focusing on the Hollywood traditions of masculine adventure and feminine romance associated respectively with adaptations of Alexandre Dumas p\ère and fils, it identifies four genre markers common to both traditions that make it more likely a given adaptation will be perceived as an adaptation even by an audience that does not know its source, and one anti-marker associated with adaptations in the tradition of the younger Dumas but not the elder. The essay concludes by proposing adaptation as a model for all Hollywood genres.

}, keywords = {adaptation, adventure, Dumas, film, genre, romance}, author = {Leitch, Thomas} } @article {891, title = {Questions of Genre}, journal = {Screen}, volume = {31}, year = {1990}, note = {+ pdf}, month = {1990}, pages = {45{\textendash}66}, keywords = {capital, commodity, evolution, film, genre, hybrid, institution, journalism, process, Todorov}, author = {Neale, Steve} } @article {1278, title = {Neoliberal frames and genre of inequality: Recession-era chick flicks and male-centered corporate melodrama}, journal = {European Journal of Cultural Studies}, volume = {16}, year = {2013}, pages = {344-361}, abstract = {

Media forms play a vital role in making cultural and political sense of the complex economic developments and profound ideological uncertainties which have accompanied the global recession. This article analyses how popular genre cinema tackles the inequalities \– in particular, gender inequalities \– that follow from the financial crisis, situating Hollywood\’s representational strategies in the context of recessionary media culture. It posits and analyses two sub-genres which demonstrate different approaches to an altered socio-economic climate: the recessionary \‘chick flick\’ and the corporate melodrama. Amid the financial crisis these sub-genres shift emphasis to respond to changing circumstances, notably in relation to the once-ubiquitous trope of choice central to post-feminist media culture; neoliberal choice rhetoric is now considerably harder to maintain. The two case studies contrast the different ways in which female-centred chick flicks and male-centred corporate melodramas address unemployment, downward mobility and the challenges of work\–life balance.

}, keywords = {film, gender, neoliberalism}, author = {Negra, Diane and Tasker, Yvonne} } @article {1272, title = {Sumptuous Texts: Consuming {\textquoteright}Otherness{\textquoteright} in the Food Film Genre}, journal = {Critical Studies in Media Communication}, volume = {25}, year = {2008}, pages = {68-90}, chapter = {68}, abstract = {

In recent years, food has played an increasingly prominent role in the mainstream media in a variety of ways. As one manifestation of this trend, \“food films\” have coalesced into a bona fide genre in contemporary popular culture. In this essay, I seek to contribute to the growing conversation regarding the symbolic role and rhetorical function of mediated representations of food. In an analysis of three films of that genre\—Like Water for Chocolate, Chocolat, and\ Woman on Top\—I argue that these films are unified not only insofar as they feature food but also, and more importantly, with respect to how they use food to engage and assuage anxieties attendant to contemporary cultural ambiguities and permeabilities, especially around race/ethnicity and gender. Specifically, I contend that these films offer food as a rhetorical device through which discourses of privilege are reconciled with and restabilised against contemporary practices of desire and consumption, especially (and increasingly) for and of the \“Other.\”

}, keywords = {film, food studies}, author = {Shugart, H.A} } @inbook {1010, title = {Genre and the Video Game}, booktitle = {The Medium of the Video Game}, year = {2001}, note = {Kevin Flanagan{\textquoteright}s paper S08}, month = {2001}, pages = {113{\textendash}134}, publisher = {University of Texas Press}, organization = {University of Texas Press}, address = {Austin, TX}, keywords = {film, genre, video game}, author = {Wolf, Mark J. P.}, editor = {Wolf, Mark J. P.} }