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Arthur Asa Berger - San Francisco State University, USA

Volume: 2

Series:
Feminist Perspective on Communication

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Popular Culture

192 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

An introduction to genre analysis, this highly readable volume presents key concepts in an accessible manner for undergraduate courses in film, TV, media criticism and cultural studies. The texts are representative of horror, science fiction, spy, classic detective, and tough guy detective genres, and readers may make their own analyses of texts based on the methods explained and the examples offered.

PART ONE: THEORIES

On the Structure of Genres

Propp, de Saussure and the Narrative

Formulas and Texts

Genre Theory

Genre, Society and Culture

The Classical Mystery

A Case Study

PART TWO: TEXTS

Murder on the Orient Express

f003 The Maltese Falcon

The Hard-Boiled Detective Novel

f003 Dr No

f003 War of the Worlds

Frankenstein

The New Prometheus

Conclusions

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Arthur Asa Berger

Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He has published more than 100 articles, numerous book reviews, and more than 60 books. Among his latest books are the third edition of Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2013), The Academic Writer’s Toolkit: A User’s Manual (2008), What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture (2009), Bali Tourism (2013), Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis (2010), The Culture Theorist’s Book of Quotations (2010),... More About Author