Overview
- One of the first books to offer extended study of film genre beyond the Hollywood case
- Offers analyses of a great range of films, genres, and movements through various methodologies to provide a diverse study of contemporary practice and theory
- Brings together leading scholars across cinematic traditions
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Identities: Race, Ethnicity, Gender
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Transition(s) and Hybridity
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Genre and Industry: Production, Marketing, Audiences
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Genre(s) in a Post-9/11 Context
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About this book
Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volume’s content—the films, genres, and movements explored, as well as methodologies used in their analysis—is diverse and, crucially, up-to-date with contemporary film-making practice and theory. Significantly, the collection extends existing scholarly discourse on film genre beyond its historical bias towards a predominant focus on Hollywood cinema, on the one hand, and a tendency to treat “other” national cinemas in isolation and/or as distinct systems of production, on the other.
In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Silvia Dibeltulo is Senior Lecturer in Communication, Media and Culture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her work centres on screen representations of identity, specifically in terms of ethnicity and gender, film genre, audience studies, cinema heritage, and digital humanities.
Ciara Barrett is University Fellow in Film Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her research focuses on female performance, representation, and authorship in genre cinema and digital media.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema
Editors: Silvia Dibeltulo, Ciara Barrett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90134-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90133-6Published: 20 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07940-6Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90134-3Published: 02 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 242
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Genre, Global Cinema and TV, Global/International Culture, Close Reading, Film Theory