Cinema Genre

Raphaëlle Moine is Professor of Cinema Studies at Université Paris X-Nanterre. Hilary Radner is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago. Alistair Fox is Professor of English at the University of Otago.

• Translators’ Note. Foreword by Janet Staiger.Introduction.1. In the Genre Jungle.Cinematic Genre. An Empirical Category.Every Use Has Its Own Typology.An Impossible Typology?.2. Looking for the Rules of Genre.Looking for Genre’s Formal Rules.Genre: An Intertextual Phenomenon.In Search of the Structures of Genre.Semantic-Syntactic Definitions of Genre.3. What Is the Purpose of Genres?.A Production Tool.The Social Functions of Genre.The Communicative Function of Genre.4. The Generic Identities of a Film.The Relations Between Film and Genre.The Uses of Generic Identity.The Mixing of Genres: Pluri-generic Attributes.5. How to Conceptualize the History of a Genre?.To Put an End to the Theory of Generic Evolution.The Birth of a Cinematic Genre.Hybridization and Mutation of Genres.6. Genres in Context.Cultural Identity and the Circulation of Genres.Generic Regimes.Conclusion.Select Bibliography.Filmography.Index

"In Cinema Genre, Raphaëlle Moine achieves a rare feat - brilliantly synthesizing the rich field of Anglo-American work on genre, she both refreshes and extends it through French rigour and crystal-clear methodology. An essential read for all film scholars." Ginette Vincendeau, Professor of Film Studies at King's College, London