Janet Staiger

TL;DR: Canon formation in film, as in any other area, can be located in a variety of projects as discussed by the authors, which occurs not only for historiographical reasons (every causal explanation invariably privileges particular linkages or conjunctions), but for practical reasons as well.

TL;DR: Steiger as mentioned in this paper examines a classical period in Hollywood cinema during which the notion of the "bad woman" was created, magnified and spread nationwide, and isolates 1907-1915 as the key moment in the struggle over the meaning of "woman" as a sign, and illustrates how such issues as sexuality and hygiene were being reimagined to define an appropriate version of, and explanation for, women's sexuality.

TL;DR: In recent years, Hollywood's advertising practices have been thought of as part of the apparatus of the cinematic institution that calls forth the consumer to occupy a social and economic relation set out within the film industry's ideology as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The authors compare 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.