Hollywood Genres FORMULAS, FILMMAKING, AND THE STUDIO SYSTEM

• Main Author: Schatz, Thomas. 1948- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages 1981
• Edition: Print book : English
• Subjects: Cinema > Los Angeles (Estados Unidos); Melodrama; Motion pictures > United States; Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > History; Film genres
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Schatz analyzes the studio system and tells what film genres mean in a general and theoretical way. Describing some important movie genres in Hollywood's "Golden Era", -- the Western, the gangster film, detective movies, screwball comedies, the musical and the family melodrama -- he s...

Table of Contents:

• The genius of the system
• Film genres and the genre film
• The western
• The gangster film
• The hardboiled-detective film
• The screwball comedy
• The musical
• The family melodrama.