Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System

by Thomas Schatz

Book Overview

Presents, as a thesis, that a genre approach provides a means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating Hollywood cinema. The genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0075536234
• ISBN13: 9780075536239
• Release Date: February 1981
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Genre-ific!

Everyone should read this to learn more about Hollywood genres and realize that today's Hollywood is much different that how film used to be shot.

Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking and the Studio System

A well written book which explores Hollywood genres with easy to read examples of classic Hollywood movies, and their effect on the movie-going public of the day. Comprehensive and absorbing.