Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema [Paperback]

Rethinking Genre in Contemporary Global Cinema offers a unique, wide-ranging exploration of the intersection between traditional modes of film production and new, transitional/transnational approaches to film genre and related discourses in a contemporary, global context. This volumes contentthe films, genres, and movements explored, as well as methodologies used in their analysisis diverse and, crucially, up-to-date with contemporary film-making practice and theory. Significantly, the collection extends existing scholarly discourse on film genre beyond its historical bias towards a predominant focus on Hollywood cinema, on the one hand, and a tendency to treat other national cinemas in isolation and/or as distinct systems of production, on the other.

In view of the ever-increasing globalisation and transnational mediation of film texts and screen media and culture worldwide, the book recognises the need for film genre studies and film genre criticism to cast a broader, indeed global, scope. The collection thus rethinks genre cinema as a transitional, cross-cultural, and increasingly transnational, global paradigm of film-making in diverse contexts.

1. Introduction: Genres in Transition (Silvia Dibeltulo and Ciara Barrett).- 2. Black, White, and Transnational: An Analysis of the Rise, Fall, and Potential Rebirth of the Contemporary Urban Dance Musical in Anglophone Western Cinemas (Ciara Barrett).- 3. Tales of Loss, Betrayal, and Regain: Irishness and Ethnic Identity in Contemporary Irish-Themed American Gangster Films (Silvia Dibeltulo).- 4. Neurotic and Going Nowhere: Comedy and the Contemporary Jewish American Male (Jennifer OMeara).- 5. Modern Bromance, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the Dialogics of Alterity (David Wall).- 6. The En-genrement of the Nation: The Spanish Civil War Film and Guillermo del Toros Fantasies (Juan F. Egea).- 7. &llƒb