Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System

Presents, as a thesis, that a genre approach provides a means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating Hollywood cinema. The genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process is sustained through genres, those formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film.

• Author
• Thomas Schatz

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 300

• Publisher
• McGraw-Hill

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780075536239

• Genres
• film, academic

• Release date
• 1981