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[ecrea] Generic attactions : New essays on film genre criticism

Wed Nov 10 19:02:56 GMT 2010



Dear all,
I am very pleased to announce the publication of "Generic Attractions: New Essays on Film Genre Criticism", edited by Maria del Mar Azcona and Celestino Deleyto.

del Mar Azcona, Maria and Celestino Deleyto, eds, Generic Attractions: New essays on film genre criticism, Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2010. ISBN-13 978-2356920331

Best regards,
David Roche, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Michel Houdiard Éditeur
présente l?ouvrage
Generic attactions : New essays on film genre criticism
From its beginnings in the 1960s and 70s genre criticism has been one of the most exciting and fruitful areas of enquiry in Film Studies, surviving and morphing into the various tendencies and schools of criticism that have succeeded one another in the course of the still short life of the discipline. Generic Attractions offers a fresh look at the topic and, through a series of original essays, maps out the complex panorama of approaches existing at the beginning of the 21st century. Although theoretical speculation abounds in many of the essays, the emphasis overall in this volume is on practical criticism: traditional genres are revisited, new genres are described, specific periods of individual genres are reappraised and various combinations of generic conventions are used to look at individual directors and individual movies. The four parts into which the volume is divided attempt to suggest the variety of the field and the multiplicity of perspectives from which it can be explored. Part 1 focuses on individual genres, some of them well established within the genre system, others newcomers to it, advocating the flexibility and constant fluidity of generic categories. Part 2 sees genres as historical phenomena and looks at particular moments in the history of genres. Part 3 analyses specific cases of auteurs that have contributed or continue to contribute in interesting ways to the individual genres that they have worked with. Finally, the essays in part 4 examine the ways in which generic conventions are used by individual films or groups of films and the impact they have in our interpretations of the texts. In its variety and the dialogue that it allows between various schools of thought, Generic Attractions reenacts once again the vibrancy and continued relevance of film genre criticism.

TAble oF CoNTeNTS
Introduction

I. New Genres, New Theories
Genre and Complexity Theory:The Case of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Chantal Cornut-Gentille D?Arcy

Transnational Cinema,Transgeneric Cinema.
Elizabeth Ezra

Film Noir and its Ambiguous Take on Genre.
Audun Engelstad

Silenced bodies:The Arrival of Sound and the Configuration of the Gangster Film.
Vicente Benet

Through the Generic lens: european Cinema on the Road
Wendy Everett

A Genre to the Rescue of an Ideology: A New Approach to empire Cinema.
Julien Guieu

A Genre is born:The Multi-Protagonist Film in Action.
María del Mar Azcona

Rewind: Desire and the Arabesque of Plot in Romantic Comedies.
Celestino Deleyto

The Fantastic Genre and baroque Style: Common borders and Diverse ends.
Emmanuel Plasseraud

Sit-what? or, S(H)itcom Inc. Contemporary british sitcoms, hegemony and the breaking of genre boundaries: The Office and Extras.
David Walton

II. Genres and History
Comic Sense and Melodramatic Sensibility: Generic Interplay in Classical Hollywood Romantic Comedy.
Manuela Ruiz

Genre and Gender, Culture and Ideology:The American occupation of Japan and Japanese Melodrama
Jacline Moriceau

Working Girls and Men at Work in Contemporary Romantic Comedies.
Marianne Kac-Vergne

When Woody Met Carrie: Sex and the City?s Protagonist as 21st Century Schlemiel.
Beatriz Oria

?I?ll be black?: Race and Technophobia in 1980s Action Cinema.
Nicky Falkof

From empire to Raj Revival Films: Hybridity and Transformation of Genre and Gender in british Cinema.
Elena Oliete

?Re-living the living legend?:The Singer biopic as Film Musical Redux in the Age of Television.
Anthony Barker

From Scandinavian Detective Films to The Wire: Social Realism or Subversion in Contemporary Detective/Police Drama.
Janica Tomic

Science Fiction and the Paradox of Popularity:Tensions between the Screen and the Page.
Sara Martín

The Short-lived Dickens Musical era.
Luc Bouvard

III. Genres And Auteurs Which Formula?
Frank Capra and Generic Hybridity.
Yves Carlet

Cukor?s Women and Film.
Yola LeCaïnec

Is There such a Thing as a Hitchcock Genre?
Dominique Sipière

Woody Allen?s Cinema: Playing with Hollywood Genres, Pastiche and Parody.
Gilles Menegaldo

Quentin Tarantino?s Death Proof (2007): Subverting Genre through Gender or Vice Versa
David Roche

IV. Genres in Action
Reflexivity in Three Films Noirs: Laura (otto Preminger, 1944), Double Indemnity (billy Wilder, 1944), Sunset Boulevard (billy Wilder, 1950).
Christophe Gelly

Death Rattles and Dead Children, the Poetics of Restraint in Three Fantastic Films of the Seventies: The Other (1972), Don?t Look Now (1973), Full Circle (1977).
Christophe Chambost

Generic hybridity in The Draughtsman?s Contract: History in Suspense.
Beatriz Hernández Pérez

Film Scholarship and the Artist biopic Frida: From Suffering Martyr to the Death of the Artist.
Bronwyn Polaschek

Who?s the Animal? Perdita Durango and the Criminal Subject of Chicano Identity.
Stephanie Benson

Generic Complexity and New Individualism ethics in A Mighty Heart (2007).
Luis Miguel García-Mainar

A look at the Dark Side:The Impact of Film Noir on Harrison Ford?s Developing Star Persona.
Virginia Luzón

Queer Nightmares
Xavier Daverat

The Continuation and Deviations of the Road Movie?s Generic Journey.
Carmen Induráin

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