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This text seeks to revise notions of film genre. It connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. In a critique of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre... read more
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Of all the concepts fundamental to literary theory, none has a longer and more distinguished lineage than the question of literary types, or genres.
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 791.436
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- Books › Entertainment › Movies › History & Criticism
- Books › History › Americas
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