Genre Trajectories ― Identifying, Mapping, Projecting

The overarching ambition of Genre Trajectories is to explore trends and developments in genre studies in the early 21st century. While the first approach to genre trajectories is undoubtedly one of identification, the chapters in the volume engage in paradoxical, and dynamic manifestations critiquing the position of genre as a linear trajectory. Genre approaches are applied by the 14 authors of the volume to examine a fascinating range of texts including ancient Greek poems, Holocaust visual and literary texts, contemporary Hollywood films, selfies, melodrama, as well as to better understand the role of genre in teaching and learning. The book is designed to engage the reader in a conversation about genre in relation to philosophy, memory, gender, new media, teaching and pedagogy.

Garin Dowd is Professor in Film, Media and Literature in the Ealing School of Media, Art and Design at the University of West London, UK. He is the author of Abstract Machines: Samuel Beckett and Philosophy after Deleuze and Guattari (2007), co-author (with F. Daly) of Leos Carax (2003) and editor (with L. Stevenson and J. Strong) of Genre Matters (2006). He has also published work on aspects of genre in the writings of Samuel Beckett, essays on the French film critic Serge Daney and on the films of Jacques Rivette.

Natalia Rulyova is Lecturer in Russian in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, UK. She co-authored (with S. Hutchings) Television and Culture in Putin's Russia: Remote Control (2009). She also co-edited (with B. Beumers and S. Hutchings) Globalisation, Freedom and the Media after Communism: The Past as Future (2013), (with B. Beumers and S. Hutchings, eds) The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals (2011) and (with J. Morris and V. Strukov, eds) Special Issue New Media in New Europe-Asia (Volume 64, Issue 8, 2012).