Film Criticism back issues from September 1997:
Hybrid or inbred: the purity hypothesis and Hollywood genre history.(Genre)
Sep 22, 1997; ... Two theses in recent film scholarship seem closely linked. One thesis is that films produced in Hollywood in the past forty years or so are persistently instances of genre mixing. For example, in discussing two films, Back to the Future III and Dances with Wolves (both 1990), Jim Collins ...
Genre theory in the context of the noir and post-noir film.(Genre)
Sep 22, 1997; ... This essay explores the problems encountered in attempting to apply a generic category or categories to a body of American films made in the 1940's and 1950's that became known as film noir as well as to a body of later films influenced by the noir tradition. By way of illustrating these ...
Toward a post-structural influence in film genre study: intertextuality and 'The Shining.'(Genre)
Sep 22, 1997; ...I. Introduction In a 1977 essay, Thomas Schatz identifies what he considers to be "the structural influence" in film genre studies. Applying the work of Claude Levi-Strauss, Schatz details the "mythic function" of American film genres (95). Schatz argues, "This conception ...
Yoked together by violence: 'Prizzi's Honor' as a generic hybrid.(Genre)
Sep 22, 1997; ... John Huston's 1985 gangster film Prizzi's Honor annexes two competing generic traditions to consider what acceptable role a woman might play in the world of crime. The film presents itself as a screwball comedy detailing the antic courtship and exuberant marriage of a (male) New York ...
Native American documentary: an emerging genre?(Genre)
Sep 22, 1997; ... This essay addresses the question of whether Native American media documentaries constitute a unique documentary genre distinct from non-native documentary film and video. The question arises from the scholarly thesis that distinct indigenous identities will be expressed through styles ...