Description:
This Reader brings together for the first time key works by Steve Neale, one of the founding figures of UK film studies. It includes selections of his influential writing on genre, together with other critical work encompassing film analysis, representation, cinema history, technology, and the film industry.
Brief description:
Frank Krutnik is a Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the author of In a Lonely Street: Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity (1991), Popular Film and Television Comedy (with Steve Neale, 1990) and Inventing Jerry Lewis (2000), and editor of Hollywood Comedians: the Film Reader (2003), Un-American Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (with Steve Neale, Brian Neve, Peter Stanfield, 2003) as well as special issues of New Review of Film and Television Studies and Film Studies.
Review Quotes: "The book charts Neale's intellectual development over the course of his career, as he subjected his own earlier assumptions to critique and revision, serving as an original account of disciplinary change over time through the prism of one of its key actors." Sheldon Hall, Sheffield Hallam University "The book serves as a handbook of methods of analysis - archival work involving print culture, "distant" readings of large bodies of film, close textual analysis, theoretical polemics. Neale's work provides some of the best examples of each of these methods: a "manual" of sorts in film studies." Will Straw, McGill University, Montreal, Canada