Showing papers by "Janet Staiger published in 1997"

Hybrid or inbred: the purity hypothesis and Hollywood genre history

Abstract: . . . they represent two divergent types of genre film that co-exist in current popular culture. One is founded on dissonance, on eclectic juxtapositions of elements that very obviously don’t belong together, while the other is obsessed with recovering some sort of missing harmony, where everything works in unison. Where the former involves an ironic hybridization of pure classical genres . . . , the latter epitomizes a “new sincerity” that rejects any form of irony in its sanctimonious pursuit of lost purity.1

The Romances of the Blonde Venus: Movie Censors Versus Movie Fans

Abstract: Cet article poursuit un travail recent de revision des etudes portant sur la censure, en allant au-dela de l’argument textuel qui pretend que le spectateur peut interpreter une oeuvre ambigue de pl...