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Film/Genre

Paperback • 1999 • English

Film/Genre

By Rick Altman

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About the book

This text seeks to revise notions of film genre. It connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. In a critique of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played. Recognizing that the very term "genre" has different meaning for different groups, he bases his genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users ...Show more

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ISBN

9780851707174

Publisher

British Film Institute

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Film/Genre

Format

Paperback

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