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Refiguring melodrama in film and television : captive affects, elastic sufferings, vicarious objects /
Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects, by Agustín Zarzosa, challenges the long-standing definition of melodrama as a cultural mode that anxiously proclaims the existence of a defunct moral order in a post-sacred world. Arguing that the c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects, by Agustín Zarzosa, challenges the long-standing definition of melodrama as a cultural mode that anxiously proclaims the existence of a defunct moral order in a post-sacred world. Arguing that the central concern of melodrama is not morality but suffering, this book offers an alternative conception of melodrama as an apparatus that shapes suffering and redistributes its visibility. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 173 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739172544 0739172549 1299141374 9781299141377 |