Book Research - Part 1

Cook, Pam; Bernink, Mieke (2003): The Cinema Book. Stephen Street, London: British Film Institute.

“The genre offers a ‘never-never land’ governed by absolute inflexible laws”

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Brian Murphy, ‘Monster movies: they came from beneath the 50s’, Journal of Popular Film 1(1), winter 1972

“Since we are dealing with a visual medium we ought surely to look for out defining criteria at what we actually see on the screen…”

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Edward Buscombe, ‘The idea of genre in the American cinema’, Screen 2(2), March/April 1970

“By iconography Buscombe meant recurrent images, including the physical attributes and dress of the actors, the setting…”

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The Media Student’s Book

“‘Genre’ is a French word for ‘type’ or ‘kind’, as in biological classification of plants and animals. In study of the media, it involves some long-standing debates about the categorisation of mass produced popular forms, and audiences’ pleasure in them.”