Film Genre 2000

Wheeler Winston Dixon is Chairperson of the Film Studies Program and Professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He is the author of many books, including most recently The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image; The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema; The Films of Jean-Luc Godard; and The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image, all published by SUNY Press.

• List of Illustrations Chapter One Introduction: The New Genre CinemaWheeler Winston DixonChapter Two New Wave Black Cinema in the 1990sMark A. ReidChapter Three So Much is Lost in Translation: Literary Adaptations in the 1990sJohn C. TibbettsChapter Four Of Tunes and Toons: The Movie Musical in the 1990sMarc MillerChapter Five Political Film in the NinetiesStephen PrinceChapter Six The Martial Arts Film in the 1990sDavid DesserChapter Seven Same as It Ever Was: Innovation and Exhaustion in the Horror and Science Fiction Films of the 1990sDavid SanjekChapter Eight "Fighting and Violence and Everything, That's Always Cool": Teen Films in the 1990sWheeler Winston DixonChapter Nine The Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavor: Crime Films during the 1990sRon WilsonChapter Ten Action Films: The Serious, the Ironic, the PostmodernJames M. WelshChapter Eleven Children's Films in the 1990sHeather AddisonChapter Twelve Noir in the Red and the Nineties in the BlackTom ConleyChapter Thirteen Fade-Out in the West: The Western's Last Stand?Chuck BergChapter Fourteen Hanging on a Star: The Resurrection of the Romance Film in the 1990sCatherine L. PrestonNotes on Contributors Index

"Tremendously enjoyable. These essays are written to engage readers in a thoughtful and thought-provoking dialogue on popular cinema. Dixon's keen decision to mingle divergent and complementary voices invites an active and participatory reading experience." —Lalumiere, Claude, January Magazine, April 2000"The volume presents a judicious, well-balanced collection, partly revisionist but not excessively so, which illuminates Hollywood films in the nineties. I found the prose evocative and graphic. These writers have boiled down the many facets of nineties' movies to something of 'intensity, lucidity, brevity, beauty,' to borrow from Henry James." — Edward T. Jones, York College of Pennsylvania