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1. Genre and Hollywood

   By Steve Neale

   Series: Sightlines

   Genre and Hollywood provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of genre. In this important new book, Steve Neale discusses all the major concepts, theories and accounts of Hollywood and genre, as well as the key genres which theorists have written about, from horror to the Western. He...

   Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge
2. Unthinking Eurocentrism

   Multiculturalism and the Media

   By Ella Shohat, Robert Stam

   Series: Sightlines

   Unthinking Eurocentrism explores issues of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism in relation to popular culture, film and the mass media. The book 'multiculturalizes' media studies by looking at Hollywood movie genres such as the western, the musical and the imperial film from multicultural...

   Published November 2nd 1994 by Routledge
3. Cinema and Spectatorship

   By Judith Mayne

   Series: Sightlines

   Cinema and Spectatorship is the first book to focus entirely on the history and role of the spectator in contemporary film studies. While 1970s film theory insisted on a distinction betweeen the cinematic subject and film-goers, Judith Mayne suggests that a very real friction between "subjects" and...

   Published April 21st 1993 by Routledge
4. Narrative Comprehension and Film

   By Edward Branigan

   Series: Sightlines

   Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understnad the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everday conversations and in the nonfictional discourses of journalists, historians, educators, psychologists, attorneys and many others.Edward Branigan presents a...

   Published September 2nd 1992 by Routledge