A comprehensive introduction to film history, The Film Genre Book allows the reader to create their own narrative of film through history by focusing on seven g

This book provides a detailed account of genre history and contemporary trends in film genre, alongside the critical debates they have provoked.

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Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo�