[ecrea] Notions of Genre: Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory

***Notions of Genre***

*Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory***

/Edited by Barry Keith Grant & Malisa Kurtz/

“Original and important. This anthology demonstrates that our immediate 
predecessors were often highly perceptive and indeed, in some cases, 
were making a clear case that movies and popular culture of all sorts 
deserved to be taken seriously. The selection of essays is 
outstanding.”–Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University, author of 
/The Horror Film: An Introduction/

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“By bringing together the major critics writing on film in the 
pre-theory era, this anthology helps to advance the study of cinema 
genres and also to acquaint new readers to this older tradition of 
excellent critical commentary.”–Stephen Prince, Virginia Tech, author of 
/Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film/ and coeditor of /An 
Introduction to Film Genres/

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Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as 
genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged 
as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural observers within and 
beyond the academy were writing about genre films and making fascinating 
attempts to understand their conventions and how they speak to, for, and 
about the culture that produces them. While this early writing on genre 
film was often unsystematic, impressionistic, journalistic, and 
judgmental, it nonetheless produced insights that remain relevant and 
valuable today

/Notions of Genre/ gathers the most important early writing on film 
genre and genre films published between 1945 and 1969. It includes 
articles by such notable critics as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, 
Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude 
Chabrol, as well as essays by scholars in academic disciplines such as 
history, sociology, and theater. Their writings address major issues in 
genre studies, including definition, representation, ideology, 
audiences, and industry practices, across genres ranging from comedy and 
westerns to horror, science fiction, fantasy, gangster films, and 
thrillers. The only single-volume source for this early writing on genre 
films, /Notions of Genre/ will be an invaluable resource for scholars 
and students of film genre, film history, film theory, cultural studies, 
and popular culture.

*Barry Keith Grant* is a professor in the Department of Communications, 
Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University. *Malisa Kurtz* received 
her PhD from Brock University in Interdisciplinary Humanities.

University of Texas Press

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