Articles

• What Is a Film Genre?
• Rick Altman and Film Genre Theory
• Steve Neale and Film Genre Theory
• Thomas Schatz and Structural Genre Theory
• Barry Keith Grant and the Expansion of Genre Theory
• Barry Collins and Cultural Genre Theory
• Jason Mittell and Genre as Cultural Process
• Christine Gledhill and Feminist Genre Theory
• Robert Stam and Poststructuralist Genre Theory
• Alireza Kaveh and the Five-Part Cinematic Taxonomy
• Steve Neale and Crime Genre Theory
• Thomas Elsaesser and the Theory of Melodrama
• Rick Altman and the Musical Genre
• Thomas Schatz and the Structural Approach to the Western Genre
• Alireza Kaveh and the Elusive Nature of Film Noir
• Robin Wood and the Ideological Power of Horror
• Noël Carroll and the Cognitive Theory of Horror
• Tzvetan Todorov and the Fantastic
• Henri Bergson and the Theory of Laughter
• Paul Schrader and the Theory of Film Noir
• Stanley Cavell and the Melodrama of the Unknown Woman
• Aristotle and the Origins of Genre
• Linda Williams and the Body Genres
• Vladimir Propp and the Structure of Fairy Tales
• Claude Lévi-Strauss and Mythic Structures
• Carl Jung and the Archetypes of Genre
• Walter Benjamin and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
• Gerald Mast and the Comic Tradition
• Barry Keith Grant and the Musical Genre
• Feminist Film Theory and the Woman’s Film
• Richard Dyer: Genre, Ideology, and Representation
• Genre in the Age of Smartphones and Social Media
• Queer Genre Theory and LGBTQ+ Film Forms
• Genre and Postcolonial Theory – Amara Singh

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