Melodrama
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Melodrama
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Author : James L. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Melodrama written by James L. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1973, this book explores the genre of melodrama. After discussing the defining characteristics of melodrama, the book examines the dramatic structures of the two major and contrasting emotions presented in melodrama: triumph and defeat. It concludes with a reflection on the ways in which elements of melodrama have appeared in protest theatre.
Melodrama Unbound
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Author : Christine Gledhill
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-08
Melodrama Unbound written by Christine Gledhill and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-08 with Performing Arts categories.
For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women. Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama is a transgeneric mode that has long spoken to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Pointing to melodrama’s roots in the ancient Greek combination of melos and drama, and to medieval Christian iconography focused on the pathos of Christ as suffering human body, the volume highlights the importance to modernity of melodrama as a mode of emotional dramaturgy, the social and aesthetic conditions for which emerged long before the French Revolution. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. They examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in India, China, Japan, and South America, whether through colonial circuits or later, globalization; how melodrama mixes with other modes such as romance, comedy, and realism; and finally how melodrama has modernized the dramatic functions of gender, class, and race by orchestrating vital aesthetic and emotional experiences for diverse audiences.
Melodrama And Modernity
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Author : Ben Singer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2001-04-05
Melodrama And Modernity written by Ben Singer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-04-05 with Performing Arts categories.
In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.
Victorian Melodrama In The Twenty First Century
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Author : Katie Kapurch
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-08-24
Victorian Melodrama In The Twenty First Century written by Katie Kapurch and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts. Attention to conventions such as crying, victimization, and happy endings in the context of the Twilight-Jane Eyre relationship reveals melodrama as an empowering mode of communication for girls. Although melodrama has saturated popular culture since the nineteenth century, its expression in texts for, about, and by girls has been remarkably under theorized. By defining melodrama, however, through its Victorian lineages, Katie Kapurch recognizes melodrama's aesthetic form and rhetorical function in contemporary girl culture while also demonstrating its legacy since the nineteenth century. Informed by feminist theories of literature and film, Kapurch shows how melodrama is worthy of serious consideration since the mode critiques limiting social constructions of postfeminist girlhood and, at the same time, enhances intimacy between girls—both characters and readers.
Melodrama
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Author : Daniel Charles Gerould
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Melodrama written by Daniel Charles Gerould and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Drama categories.
Imitations Of Life
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Author : Marcia Landy
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1991
Imitations Of Life written by Marcia Landy and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Performing Arts categories.
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Melodrama
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Author : John Mercer
language : en
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Release Date : 2004
Melodrama written by John Mercer and has been published by Wallflower Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Drama categories.
Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of the, often complex, debates that emerge out of the connections between melodrama and cinema. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European theatre of the 18th and 19th century, as a specific cinematic style, epitomised by the work of Douglas Sirk or as a sensibility that emerges in the context of specific texts, speaking to and reflecting the desires, concerns and anxieties of audiences. Each chapter includes overviews of key essays, analyses of significant and widely studied films and includes an annotated reading list
Melodrama In Contemporary Film And Television
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Author : M. Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Melodrama In Contemporary Film And Television written by M. Stewart and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Performing Arts categories.
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
English Melodrama
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Author : Michael R. Booth
language : en
Publisher: London : H. Jenkins
Release Date : 1965
English Melodrama written by Michael R. Booth and has been published by London : H. Jenkins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with English drama categories.
Melodrama
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Author : James L. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-06
Melodrama written by James L. Smith and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- 1 The Nature of Melodrama -- 2 Triumph -- The Pattern -- Variations -- Developments -- A Defence -- 3 Defeat -- 4 Protest -- Bibliography and Acknowledgements -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Titles