Title Hollywood genres : formulas, filmmaking, and the studio system / Thomas Schatz

Edition First edition Published New York, N.Y. : Random House, [1981] New York : Random House, [1981] ©1981 ©1981

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Description xiv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents The genius of the system -- Film genres and the genre film -- The Western -- The gangster film -- The hardboiled-detective film -- The screwball comedy -- The musical -- The family melodrama -- Epilogue: Hollywood filmmaking and American mythmaking Analysis GENRES HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-284) and index Subject Film genres -- United States. Film genres. Motion pictures -- United States. SUBJECT Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115352 LC no. 80025699 ISBN 0075536234 039432255X 9780075536239 9780394322551

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