Genre and Hollywood (Sightlines)

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Summary: Superb overview of Hollywood film genres
Review: Steve Neale's book offers an excellent, theoretically well-informed, up-to-date and very readable overview of Hollywood film genres. Those who are new to the study of film genre will find this a great one-volume introduction to the subject, and experts will particularly welcome his discussion of definitions of genre (and the critical problems those definitions raise). It provides an ideal balance of concrete example and abstract theory and is to my mind currently the best book on this topic. Highly recommended.