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1. Hollywood Musicals, The Film Reader

   Edited by Steven Cohan

   Series: In Focus: Routledge Film Readers

   Articles examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis, camp production and reception, stardom, and the representation of race and ethnicity.Includes essays by: Rick Altman, Lucie Arbuthnot and...

   Published December 19th 2001 by Routledge
2. The Road Movie Book

   Edited by Steven Cohan, Ina Rae Hark

   The Road Movie Book is the first comprehensive study of an enduring but ever-changing Hollywood genre, its place in American culture, and its legacy to world cinema. The road and the cinema both flourished in the twentieth century, as technological advances brought motion pictures to a mass...

   Published October 15th 1997 by Routledge
3. Telling Stories

   A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction

   By Steven Cohan, Linda M. Shires

   Series: New Accents

   Telling Stories overturns traditional definitions of narrative by arguing that any story, whether a Bette Davis film, a jeans ad, a Jane Austen novel of a 'Cathy' comic, must be related to larger cultural networks. The authors show how meanings and subjectivity do not exist in isolation, but are...

   Published October 19th 1988 by Routledge