Los géneros cinematográficos

by Rick Altman

Illustrated
Film/Genre radically revises our notions. It is the first book to fully connect the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. In a critiques of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Rick Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played. Recognizing that the very term "genre" has different meanings for different groups, he bases his new genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discusses a huge range of films from The Great Train Robbery to Star Wars and from The Jazz Singer to The Player.

Author Biography: Rick Altman is Professor of French and Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of The American Film Musical and editor of Cinema/Sound and Sound Theory/Sound Practice.

Genres: Film, Nonfiction, Academic, Theory, Reference

332 pages, Paperback

First published December 22, 1998

About the author

Rick Altman is a professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature in the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa.

Reviews

[Noah]

me he planteado ser menos entusiasta pero la verdad es que estoy bastante entusiasmada con este libro

[Gunner Taylor]

Fantastic book.

[Henrique Quadros]

I enjoyed going through this mostly as as a means to catch up on the literary discourse around genre theory (even if this is a 30 year old book) and also to see what Altman's view of genre was that made this such a foundational work. I gotta say some chapters were a bit too dense for my understanding but overall this is a pretty good book and I think his analysis of genre is really on point. I wish he went more into detail on more examples of genres but what he did talk about is already quite a lot.

Worth checking out for sure. I'd say maybe start by the Appendix which is the original essay that he wrote before writing anything in this book

[Ash]

It's a bit structuralist for my tastes.

[Paschalia]

Contains both an overview of film genre theories, a communication model theory and suggests a new film genre approach/ theory. Pretty good

[Madelyn]

"Genres are not the real world, but a game that we play with moves and players borrowed from the real world"

[Laszlo Rapaport]

Leido cap. 2 y conclusiones para Historia del Cine II

[t]

helpful summaries, clearly written! but i can’t bring myself to be very enthusiastic about genre

[Constance]

J’ai dû lire 12 pages pour mon cours sur la théorie du genre et c’était imbuvable dsl j’ai compris 1/4 de son charabia

[Judit]

es repeteix força i es avorrit

[Greta]

Talks about genres as complex and changing entities which are mixed and evolve over time and mean different things in different times and to different audiences. Includes historical info and info on how Hollywood films were advertised in the real world. More than just theory, sums up previous genre theory. Pretty good