Directory : Textual Analysis : Genre Theory
Articles
Brent, Doug (nd) 'Writing Classes, Writing Genres, and Writing Textbooks' (Textual Studies in Canada) [link added 11/12/98]
Chandler, Daniel (nd) 'An Introduction to Genre Theory' [link added 11/8/97]
Erickson, Thomas (nd) 'Genre Theory as a Tool for Analyzing Network-Mediated Interaction: The Case of the Collective Limericks' [link added 11/12/98]
Erickson, Thomas (nd) 'Why the Future of the Internet has More to Do with Genre Blending than Gender Bending' [link added 11/12/98]
Knight, Deborah (nd) 'Making Sense of Genre' [link added 16/7/97]
Laseur, Carol (1996) 'Genre and Film' [link added 11/2/98]
Lawrie, Katherine (1995) 'Cookie-Cutter Or Connoisseur? Genre Theory and John Ford’s Stagecoach' [link added 11/12/98]
Rowley, Stephen (nd) 'Genre, Auteurism, and Spielberg' [link added 11/12/98]
Recommended Reading
Altman, Rick (1999): Film Genre. London: BFI
Feuer, Jane (1992): 'Genre study and television'. In Robert C Allen (Ed.): Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism. London: Routledge, pp. 138-59
Swales, John M (1990): Genre Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [primarily linguistic in focus]
Other links
Genre: Notes for A Level Students in the UK: Steve Baker [link added 30/5/00]
The Movie Cliché List
Television Genres (Yahoo Index)
