Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (Short Cuts)
Barry Grant provides a splendid introduction to film genre study. This elegant volume offers a concise overview of the main theoretical, historical and cultural issues, which are developed through a series of case studies of significant, enduring genre masterworks. Grant's writing is lively and very clear, which makes this an excellent book for use in the classroom. This will become an essential work on its subject.(Stephen Prince,, Virginia Tech)