Hollywood genres : formulas, filmmaking, and the studio system /
Thomas Schatz.
- New York Random House, c1981.
- xiv, 297 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 275-284.
The genius of the system -- Film genres and the genre film -- The Western -- The gangster film -- The hardboiled-detective film -- The screwball comedy -- The musical -- The family melodrama -- Epilogue: Hollywood filmmaking and American mythmaking.