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ABSTRACT
The concept of cine-genres, first introduced by Adrian Piotrovsky in a 1927 anthology of essays by Russian Formalist critics on cinema, has been used by a number of recent critics to describe genres that rely as much on their cinematic form as their narrative structure or iconic images. This essay argues for cine-genre as a way to acknowledge the unique cinematic aspect of groups of film. Cine-genres can be applied historically (as in early cinema), but they are also relevant to current films based in special effects or even in new media forms, such as brief YouTube videos.
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Tom Gunning
Tom Gunning is Professor Emeritus in the Department on Cinema and Media at the University of Chicago. He is the author of D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press, 1986) and The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity (British Film Institute, 2000), as well as over 150 articles on early cinema, film history and theory, avant-garde film, film genre, and cinema and modernism. In 2009, he was awarded an Andrew A. Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award and in 2010 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.