Classes
Why Genre Isn't a Checklist
The Three-Way Contract: Studios, Filmmakers, Audiences
How a Genre Is Born: The Case of the Screwball Comedy
The Western's Long Goodbye: Conventions Under Pressure
Genre Hybrids Are Not a Postmodern Invention
When Genres Travel: Bollywood's Masala and the Global Action Film
Subversion and Its Discontents: What Does Breaking Rules Do?
The Art Film's Genre: A Parallel Economy
The Analyst's Toolkit: Reading a Film's Genre Negotiation in Real Time
Foundations & Further Reading
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British Film Institute · Background for Class 1: Why Genre Isn't a Checklist
Nino Frank and the Invention of Film Noir
Film Criticism (via JSTOR) · Background for Class 1: Why Genre Isn't a Checklist
Screen: 'Alien' Brings Scream Starring Sigourney Weaver
The New York Times · Background for Class 1: Why Genre Isn't a Checklist
The Real Story of the *Fatal Attraction* Ending That Test Audiences Rejected
Vanity Fair · Background for Class 2: The Three-Way Contract: Studios, Filmmakers, Audiences
The Hollywood Reporter · Background for Class 2: The Three-Way Contract: Studios, Filmmakers, Audiences
Wikipedia · Background for Class 2: The Three-Way Contract: Studios, Filmmakers, Audiences
Box Office Mojo · Background for Class 2: The Three-Way Contract: Studios, Filmmakers, Audiences
Jurassic Park: The Making of a Monster Hit
Empire · Background for Class 2: The Three-Way Contract: Studios, Filmmakers, Audiences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences · Background for Class 3: How a Genre Is Born: The Case of the Screwball Comedy
AFI Catalog of Feature Films: It Happened One Night (1934)
American Film Institute · Background for Class 3: How a Genre Is Born: The Case of the Screwball Comedy
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934
Columbia University Press · Background for Class 3: How a Genre Is Born: The Case of the Screwball Comedy
Screwball: Hollywood's Madcap Romantic Comedies
Crown Publishers · Background for Class 3: How a Genre Is Born: The Case of the Screwball Comedy
<i>My Man Godfrey</i> (1936) - IMDb
IMDb · Background for Class 3: How a Genre Is Born: The Case of the Screwball Comedy
The Wild Bunch (1969) – Box Office Mojo
IMDb/Box Office Mojo · Background for Class 4: The Western's Long Goodbye: Conventions Under Pressure
Film; A Ghost Haunts Clint Eastwood
The New York Times · Background for Class 4: The Western's Long Goodbye: Conventions Under Pressure
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
BearManor Media (2007) · Background for Class 5: Genre Hybrids Are Not a Postmodern Invention
British Film Institute (1999) · Background for Class 5: Genre Hybrids Are Not a Postmodern Invention
Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System
Temple University Press (1981) · Background for Class 5: Genre Hybrids Are Not a Postmodern Invention
The Masala Film: Genre and Emotional Excess in Popular Hindi Cinema
Cinema Journal · Background for Class 6: When Genres Travel: Bollywood's Masala and the Global Action Film
The Bollywood Interval and the Construction of Audience
South Asian Popular Culture · Background for Class 6: When Genres Travel: Bollywood's Masala and the Global Action Film
45 Years of Sholay: The Film That Ran for Five Years at Minerva
Film Companion · Background for Class 6: When Genres Travel: Bollywood's Masala and the Global Action Film
IMDb · Background for Class 6: When Genres Travel: Bollywood's Masala and the Global Action Film
Hong Kong University Press / Edinburgh University Press · Background for Class 6: When Genres Travel: Bollywood's Masala and the Global Action Film
Wes Craven Interview on *Scream* DVD (1997)
Dimension Films Home Video · Background for Class 7: Subversion and Its Discontents: What Does Breaking Rules Do?