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Article: Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology, Barry Keith Grant, (2007)
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- March 1, 2009
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Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology, Barry Keith Grant, (2007) London: Wallflower Press, 144 pp., ISBN 1904764793 (pbk), £12.99
Ideas of genre have been so central to film scholarship over the past three and a half decades and - in more casual forms - to the motion-picture industry and cinema audiences throughout the history of the medium that it is somewhat surprising that Wallflower's Short Cuts series, designed primarily as introductory texts for a modular approach to film studies, took until its thirty-third entry to address the subject head on (especially since four of the series' first seven entries centred upon individual film genres: horror, science fiction, disaster movies ...