Everett Library: ENG 110: Film and the Representation of Ourselves.: Books & Ebooks

Genre-Specific Books & Ebooks

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Another Fine Mess by Saul Austerlitz
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781556529511
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Running the gamut of film history from City Lights to Knocked Up, Another Fine Mess retells the story of American film from the perspective of its unwanted stepbrother--the comedy.
Cinematic Shakespeare by Michael Anderegg
Call Number: 791.4375 AN225C
ISBN: 0742510913
Publication Date: 2003-11-22
Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style central to Shakespeare's imagination. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Crime Films by Thomas M. Leitch; Barry Keith Grant (Contribution by)
Call Number: 791.43655 L5359C
ISBN: 0521646715
Publication Date: 2002-08-15
This book surveys the entire range of crime films, including important subgenres such as the gangster film, the private eye film, film noir, as well as the victim film, the erotic thriller, and the crime comedy. Focusing on ten films that span the range of the twentieth century, Thomas Leitch traces the transformation of the three leading figures that are common to all crime films: the criminal, the victim and the avenger.
Gender Meets Genre in Postwar Cinemas by Christine Gledhill
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780252036613
Publication Date: 2012-01-19
This remarkable collection uses genre as a fresh way to analyze the issues of gender representation in film theory, film production, spectatorship, and the contexts of reception.
Genre and Hollywood by Steve Neale
Call Number: 791.436 N259G
ISBN: 0415026067
Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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 also puts forward new arguments about the importance of genre in understanding Hollywood cinema.
Horror and the Horror Film by Bruce F. Kawin
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780857284495
Publication Date: 2012-06-25
"Horror and the Horror Film" conveys a mature appreciation of horror films along with a comprehensive view of their narrative strategies, their relations to reality and fantasy, and their cinematic power.
Parody as Film Genre by Wes D. Gehring
Call Number: 791.43617 G274P
ISBN: 0313261865
Publication Date: 1999-09-30
Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview places the genre in context, and a number of basic parody components, which better define the genre and celebrate its value, are examined.
Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western by Austin Fisher
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781848855786
Publication Date: 2011-09-15
Providing a detailed, historically-grounded examination of the films of Damiano Damiani, Sergio Sollima and Sergio Corbucci, Austin Fisher reveals how and why these filmmakers responded to international and national events by inscribing Italian Far Left revolutionary doctrine, and a legitimacy of violence, into the Spaghetti Western.
Screwball Comedy by Wes D. Gehring
Call Number: 791.43 G274S
ISBN: 0313246505
Publication Date: 1986-02-21
According to Gehring, screwball comedy is a film genre much different from traditional comedic forms--e.g., the anti-establishmentarian antics of the Marx Brothers or W.C. Fields. Gehring places much emphasis on the origins and evolution of the comic anti-hero, and provocatively presents and analyzes the relation between comedy and the anti-hero comedian.

Finding Books in the Library

All of Everett Library's books are located on the library's lower level. Reference books & videos are located on the first floor.

Books in Everett Library are arranged according to the Dewey Decimal System:

Class 000 – Computer science, information & general works
Class 100 – Philosophy and psychology
Class 200 – Religion
Class 300 – Social sciences
Class 400 – Language
Class 500 – Science
Class 600 – Technology
Class 700 – Arts & recreation
Class 800 – Literature
Class 900 – History & geography

Call Numbers related to Motion Pictures:

791.43

General Resources on Film

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Film Studies by Ed Sikov
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780231142939
Publication Date: 2009-12-01
Ed Sikov builds a step-by-step curriculum for the appreciation of all types of narrative cinema, detailing the essential elements of film form and systematically training the spectator to be an active reader and critic.
Film Genre Reader II by Barry K. Grant
Call Number: 791.436 F487
ISBN: 029272778X
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
For almost a decade, Film Genre Reader has been the standard reference and classroom text for the study of genre in film. Now Barry Grant has revised and updated the book to reflect the most recent developments in genre study. This second edition contains eight new essays for a total of twenty-nine essays by some of film' most distinguished critics and scholars.
Movies in American History by Philip C. DiMare (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9781598842968
Publication Date: 2011-06-01
Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia is a reference text focused on the relationship between American society and movies and filmmaking in the United States from the late 19th century through the present.
American Cinema of the 2000s by Timothy Corrigan et al.
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9780813553238
Publication Date: 2012-04-15
In American Cinema of the 2000s, essays from ten top film scholars examine such popular series as the ground breaking Matrix films and the gripping adventures of former CIA covert operative Jason Bourne; new, offbeat films like Juno; and the resurgence of documentaries like Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. Each essay demonstrates the complex ways in which American culture and American cinema are bound together in subtle and challenging ways.