sGenres and Production Cycles
Contrary to a popular critical perspective that 1980s Hollywood marched in lockstep with the Reagan revolution, film production during the decade exhibited multiple and o...
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Genres II: Exploitation and Allusion
[During the 1970s] a theatrical filin became "that which cannot be
seen on television." In this sense, the introduction of the rating systems
in 1968 was an econo...
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Genres I: Revision, Transformation, and Revival
Genre films essentially ask the audience, "Do you still want to believe
this?" Popularity is the audience answering, "Yes." Change in genres
occur when...
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Genres and Production
Trends, 1955-1959
The changes that occurred in American film industry structure during the later 1950s-with the five major studios in continuing decline and independents on the r...
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Postwar Stars, Genres,
and Production Trends
Perhaps the single most remarkable aspect of the postwar American cinema was the overall quality and vitality of the movies themselves. Despite the declini...
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Wartime Stars, Genres, and
Production Trends
Hollywood's On-screen Conversion
On 8 December 1941, a Warner Bros. story analyst filed a report on an unproduced play, "Everybody Comes to Rick's." The st...
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The Genre Film
The Luhin directors are priding themselves upon the fact that they have
brought out a story in which two sisters from the country come to the city
and neither goes wrong.
-Mooing Pictu...
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Genres are continuously evolving to meet the audience's changing desires so that contemporary films encompass new elements from the paradigm. As older ingredients become less popular a genre must intr...
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sGenres and Production Cycles
