Film, Cinema, Genre

The book charts Neale’s intellectual development over the course of his career, as he subjected his own earlier assumptions to critique and revision, serving as an original account of disciplinary change over time through the prism of one of its key actors.

Sheldon Hall, Sheffield Hallam University

The book serves as a handbook of methods of analysis – archival work involving print culture, “distant” readings of large bodies of film, close textual analysis, theoretical polemics. Neale’s work provides some of the best examples of each of these methods: a “manual” of sorts in film studies.

Will Straw, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Steve Neale and Film Studies: An Introduction

Section A: Beginnings
1 The Reappearance of Movie
Review in Screen, 16.3 (1975), 112–15
2 Personal Views
Review in Screen, 17.3 (1976), 118–22
3 The Invention of Cinema
Chapter 3 of Cinema and Technology: Image, Sound, Colour (London: Macmillan, 1985)

Section B: Genre(s)
4 Genre
Chapter 3 of Genre (London: British Film Institute, 1980)
5 Questions of Genre
Screen, 31.1 (1990), 45–66
6 Genre and Hollywood
Chapter 7 of Genre and Hollywood (London: Routledge, 2000)
7 Melodrama and Tears
Screen, 27.6 (1986), 6–23
8 Aspects of Ideology and Narrative Form in the American War Film
Screen, 32.1 (1991), 33–57

Section C: Interventions and Provocations
9 Art Cinema as Institution
Screen, 22.1 (1981), 11–40
10 Masculinity as Spectacle: Reflections on Men and Mainstream Cinema
Screen, 24.6 (1983), 2–17
11 Melo Talk: On the Meaning and Use of the Term ‘Melodrama’ in the American Trade Press
The Velvet Light Trap, 32 (1993), 66–89
12 Hollywood Blockbusters: Historical Dimensions
Movie Blockbusters, ed. by Julian Stringer (London: Routledge, 2003), pp. 47–60

Section D: Film Analysis
13 Issues of Difference: Alien and Blade Runner
Fantasy and the Cinema, ed. by James Donald (London: British Film Institute, 1989), pp. 213–23
14 Narration, Point of View and Patterns in the Soundtrack of Letter from an Unknown Woman
Style and Meaning: Essays in the Detailed Analysis of Film, ed. by John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005), pp. 99–107
15 Gestures, Movements and Actions in Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks: New Perspectives, ed. by Ian Brookes (London: Palgrave/British Film Institute, 2016), pp. 110–21
16 The Art of the Palpable: Composition and Staging in the Widescreen Films of Anthony Mann
Widescreen Worldwide, ed. by John Belton, Sheldon Hall and Stephen Neale (New Barnet: John Libbey, 2010), pp. 91–106
17 ‘I Can’t Tell Anymore Whether You’re Lying’: Double Indemnity, Human Desire and the Narratology of Femmes Fatales
The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts, ed. by Helen Hanson and Catherine O’Rawe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 187–98

Steve Neale Bibliography
Index

The late Steve Neale was Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at the University of Exeter, and a Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History. He was the author of Genre and Hollywood (2000), co-author of Epics, Spectacles and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History (2010), editor of The Classical Hollywood Reader (2012), co-editor of ‘Un-American’ Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (2007) and Widescreen Worldwide (2010), and a contributor to Film Moments: Criticism, Theory, History (2010) and to Film Studies and Movie.

He was recipient of BAFTSS’s Outstanding Achievement Award in 2017.

Frank Krutnik is 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 Studies and Film Studies.

Richard Maltby is 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; co-edited with Melvyn Stokes and Robert C. Allen). He is a Series Editor for Exeter Studies in Film History.