Steve Neale - Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader

Film, Cinema, Genre

This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s, Neales vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the critical agendas that helped to confirm film studies position as an innovative discipline within the humanities.

Although known primarily for his work on genre, Neale has written on a far wider range of topics. In addition to selections from the influential volumes Genre(1980) and Genre and Hollywood(2000), and articles scrutinizing individual genresthe melodrama, the war film, science fiction and film noirthis Reader provides critical examinations of cinema and technology, art cinema, gender and cinema, cinema history, the film industry, New Hollywood and film analysis. Many of the articles included are recommended reading for university courses worldwide, making the volume useful to students at undergraduate level and above, as well as researchers and teachers of film studies, media studies, gender studies and cultural studies.

The collection has been selected and edited by Frank Krutnik and Richard Maltby, scholars who have worked closely with Neale and been inspired by his diverse and often provocative critical innovations. The introduction assesses the significance of Neales work, and contextualizes it within the development of UK film studies.

Notes on the editors

Frank Krutnikis a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity(1991), Popular Film and Television Comedy(with Steve Neale, 1990) and Inventing Jerry Lewis(2000), and editor of Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader(2003), Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era(with Steve Neale, Brian Neve, Peter Stanfield, 2003) as well as special issues of New Review of Film and Television Studiesand Film Studies. Richard Maltbyis the Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Screen Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide. A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he has published extensively on the cultural history of Hollywood and edited eight books on the history of cinema audiences, exhibition and reception, including Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema(UEP, 2007; coedited with Melvyn Stokes and Robert C. Allen). He is a Series Editor for Exeter Studies in Film History.

Exeter Studies in Film History

Series Editors:

Richard Maltby, Matthew Flinders Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University

Helen Hanson, Associate Professor in Film History at the University of Exeter and Academic Director of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

Joe Kember, Professor in Film Studies at the University of Exeter

Exeter Studies in Film Historyis devoted to publishing the best new scholarship on the cultural, technical and aesthetic history of cinema. The aims of the series are to reconsider established orthodoxies and to revise our understanding of cinemas past by shedding light on neglected areas in film history.

Published by University of Exeter Press in association with the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, the series includes monographs and essay collections, translations of major works written in other languages, and reprinted editions of important texts in cinema history.

Previously published titles in the series are listed at the back of this volume

First published in 2021 by
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