Hollywood Hybrids Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films

• Main Author: Jaffe, Ira. 1943- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
• Edition: Print book : English
• Series: Genre and beyond
• Subjects: Film genres > United States; Motion pictures > United States
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"Through close reading of work by major U.S. filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, Errol Morris, Todd Haynes, and Joel and Ethan Coen, Hollywood Hybrids studies provocative disorienting strategies of genre mixing in contemporary cinema. The book also investigates foreign parallels...

Table of Contents:

• Fact and fiction
• Gangster and warrior
• Melodrama and teen romance
• Tragicomic accidents
• Global parallels.