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Film Studies: Film Genre—General Sources

This guide's focus is on the study of film. Included are selected tools to locate books, articles, reviews, biographies of individuals affiliated with all aspects of film, as well as box office data.

Film Genre—General Sources

Handbook of American Film Genres
Main Stacks
PN 1993.5 .U6 H335 1988
Arranged by broader genre including action/adventure, comedy, the fantastic, songs and soaps, and nontraditional; includes essays on 19 genres. Each essay includes recommended reading (called “checklist”) and selected filmography section.
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Main Stacks
PN 1993.5 .U6 H335 1988
Arranged by broader genre including action/adventure, comedy, the fantastic, songs and soaps, and nontraditional; includes essays on 19 genres. Each essay includes recommended reading (called “checklist”) and selected filmography section.
Refiguring American film genres: history and theory
Main Stacks & Online
PN1993.5.U6 R443 1998
This volume contains nine essays on film genres including trial films, horror, melodrama, nature, film noir, and race, and provides a revised conceptual framework for the study of film genre and its place in popular culture.
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Main Stacks & Online
PN1993.5.U6 R443 1998
This volume contains nine essays on film genres including trial films, horror, melodrama, nature, film noir, and race, and provides a revised conceptual framework for the study of film genre and its place in popular culture.

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