Contemporary Russian Satire: A Genre Study

1998 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 599
Author(s):  
Robert Porter ◽  
Karen L. Ryan-Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Genre Study

Troubling Masculinities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Donnar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
American History ◽  
War Films ◽  
Hollywood Cinema ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Media And Politics ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Genre Study

The association of the attacks of 9/11 with Hollywood science fiction and disaster spectacle was immediate and pervasive. Succeeding calls in media and politics for the reassuring return of ‘strong’ masculine types—predominantly drawn from Hollywood westerns, action and war films—were widespread, revealing renewed cultural fears of threats to America from both within and without.Troubling Masculinities is the first dedicated multi-genre study of representations of masculinity in encounters with terror in post-9/11 American cinema. The book examines the impact of “terror-Others”, from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, across a broad range of sub-genres—including disaster melodrama, monster movies, post-apocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and ‘home invasion’ horror, action-thrillers and ‘frontier’ westerns—especially in relation to cinematic representations of masculinity in previous periods of national turmoil. The book demonstrates that the supposed reassertion of masculinity and American national identity in post-9/11 cinema repeatedly unravels across genres. Engaging critical arguments about how Hollywood cinema attempts to resolve male crisis in part through Orientalizing figures of terror, he shows how this unraveling reflects an inability to effectively extinguish the threat or frightening difference of terror. The heroes in these movies are unable to heal themselves or restore order, often becoming as destructive as the threats they encounter. The book concludes by showing how interrelated anxieties about masculinity and nation continue to affect contemporary American cinema and politics. By showing how persistent these cultural fears are, Troubling Masculinities offers an important counternarrative in this supposedly unprecedented moment in American history.

Three Axes of Genre Study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Rosen
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Minor Character ◽  
Genre Study

Derives a general theory of genre from analysis of the genre I call “minor-character elaboration.” It argues that genre should be studied and understood along three intersecting axes: as a practice of formal reiteration and variation, as a shared social practice that conveys the cultural logic of a particular historical moment, and as a technology that is deployed to serve the strategic needs of producers and consumers.

From the Ground Up

2018 ◽  
pp. xx-47
Author(s):  
June Howard
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Regionalism ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
The City ◽  
Genre Study

The first chapter of The Center of the World: Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is titled “From the Ground Up: Thinking about Location and Literature.” It discusses concepts of region in everyday discourse and in scholarship. It reviews past studies of literary regionalism, and tests received opinion against available empirical evidence about the circulation of regional writing. Polarized critical views can be incorporated into an account that attends to both the substantive and the relational aspects of place and regional writing. The notion of the chronotope, originated by Mikhail Bahktin, enables an understanding of the centrality of time in narratives about particular places. The opposition between the country and the city (as analyzed by Raymond Williams), and the powerful racialized notion of civilization, provide necessary groundwork for understanding the form. The chapter ends with an explanation of why the book has been framed as a genre study.

Future Passing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Sizemore
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Romance ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Standard Linear ◽  
Genre Study

The conclusion proposes an alternative to historicism informed by the growing body of work in nineteenth-century American time studies. New approaches need to explore temporalities and temporal frameworks different from the standard linear chronology employed in historicist criticism. Drawing on Catharine Sedgwick’s The Linwoods, the conclusion advances one such temporal framework (future-passing) and a complementary mode of reading (anticipatory reading) as directions for historicist revisionism. Both future-passing and anticipatory reading emerge from the genre of historical romance, offering possibilities for genre study, and more ambitiously, for literary history.

A Genre Study on American Presidential Victory Speech

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shun Zhou ◽  
◽  
Xueai Zhao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Genre Study

A Structural Reading of the Chuan in the Wen-yüan ying-hua

1977 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-456
Author(s):  
William H. Nienhauser
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Structural Approach ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Diachronic Changes ◽  
Genre Study

Perhaps the first question should be “Why?” Why transport a critical apparatus heavily laden with paradoxical factions and conflicting terminology back a millennium to the Chinese genre known as cbuana? And why a genre study, when so much groundwork is still necessary before Chinese literature can begin to demand for itself a larger consideration in general contemporary literary criticism? To attend to the second query first, genre studies are essential now for two reasons: 1) because genres evolve much more readily than their designations, and 2) because they are so basic to a reader's (and thus a critic's) approach to a work. Misunderstandings of the diachronic changes of what a generic title may include have led to useless critiques, the most notable case being perhaps that of Henry James and Fielding. In reply to the question of why a structural approach, the answer is less definitive.

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