Genre and closure in the seven versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Finney ('54, '55, '78), Siegel ('56, '56), Kaufman ('78), and Ferrara ('93).(Critical Essay)

From: West Virginia University Philological Papers | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Shelton, Robert | Copyright information

Broadly approached, the concept of genre--especially for film and most especially for Hollywood movies--raises questions located in the pull between repetition and variation, and it functions primarily for the containment of difference. Whether viewed from a taxonomic, ideological, semantic, or syntactical perspective, genre films, as Barry Keith Grant cleanly puts it, "tell familiar stories with familiar characters in familiar situations." (1) Furthermore, genre theory raises ques...

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