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Contemporary US Cinema examines important developments in American film-making over the past three decades, citing them as instances both of change and of continuity within the practices and processes of earlier phases of classic Hollywood cinema.

This study of the Western movie comprises two main parts: part one deals with background issues such as the Western as imaginary space, while part two offers a survey of the various stages of the Western, from its origins through silent Westerns to later revisionist Westerns.

The horror genre has proved to be one of the most consistently popular and the most disreputable of all the mainstream film genres. "The Horror Film" explores the key issues raised by this most contentious of genres. It considers the reasons for horror's disreputability and seeks to explain why horror has been so successful.

An overview of an often celebrated, but also contested, body of films. It discusses film noir as a cultural phenomenon whose history is more extensive and diverse than American black and white crime thrillers of the forties. An extended Background Chapter situates film noir within its cultural context.