Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

A new text which looks at contemporary Hollywood film-making from the perspective of genre.

Steve Neale is a world-renowned authority on film genre and is Professor of Film Studies Sheffield Hallam University and is the author of Genre and Hollywood (Routledge, 2000) and co-editor of Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Routledge, 1998).

Introduction

1

(10)

Steve Neale

Section One: Genre: Tradition and Innovation

Tall Revenue Features: The Genealogy of the Modern Blockbuster

11

(16)

Sheldon Hall

Westerns and Gangster Films Since the 1970s

27

(21)

Steve Neale

The New Hollywood Musical: From Saturday Night Fever to Footloose

48

(14)

J. P. Telotte

Some Smothering Dreams: The Combat Film in Contemporary Hollywood

62

(15)

Michael Hammond

From Female Friends to Literary Ladies: The Contemporary Woman's Film

77

(14)

Karen Hollinger

Hollywood Lives: The State of the Biopic at the Turn of the Century

91

(14)

Carolyn Anderson

John Lupo

From Paranoia to Postmodernism? The Horror Movie in Late Modern Society

105

(12)

Andrew Tudor

The Impossibility of Romance: Hollywood Comedy, 1978--99

117

(13)

William Paul

Conforming Passions?: Contemporary Romantic Comedy

130

(18)

Frank Krutnik

Pleasing the Million: Shakespearean Cinema of the 1990s

148

(17)

Roberta E. Pearson

Section Two: Genre: New Cycles and Trends

Hollywood Production Trends in the Era of Globalisation, 1990--99

165

(20)

Tino Balio

`The Best Disney Film Disney Never Made': Children's Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema since the 1960s

185

(16)

Peter Kramer

Movie Ratings as Genre: The Incontestable R

201

(17)

Kevin S. Sandler

Cinema and the Premises of Youth: `Teen Films' and Their Sites in the 1980s and 1990s

218

(18)

James Hay

Stephen Bailey

Ghetto Reelness: Hollywood Film Production, Black Popular Culture and the Ghetto Action Film Cycle

236

(15)

S. Craig Watkins

`Film Noir Like You've Never Seen': Jim Thompson Adaptations and Cycles of Neo-noir

251

(18)

Peter Stanfield

Grisham Adaptations and the Legal Thriller

269

(12)

Keith Bartlett

Film Parody and the Resuscitation of Genre

281

(13)

Dan Harries

`Gone with the Wind Plus Fangs': Genre, Taste and Distinction in the Assembly, Marketing and Reception of Bram Stoker's Dracula

294

(15)

Thomas Austin

Index

309

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Genre and Contemporary Hollywood

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