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Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond
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Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Langford, Barry

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  • Title Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond
  • Author Langford, Barry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Edinburgh University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date December 15, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0748619038.G
  • ISBN 9780748619030 / 0748619038
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Film genres
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005432698
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

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Thinking about why we might 'need' genres means thinking about the uses to which we commonly put genre concepts and the value we derive from doing so.

About the author

Barry Langford is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Film Genre: Hollywood and Beyond (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film (with Robert Eaglestone, Palgrave Macmillan 2007), and has published on a wide variety of subjects in film and media studies and critical theory, including Holocaust film, Chris Marker's politics, revisionist Westerns, exilic identity in European city films, narrative temporalities in The Lord of the Rings, and British television situation comedy. His original short screenplay Torte Bluma was filmed in 2005 and premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival, going on to win awards at international festivals.