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Melodrama unbound : across history, media, and national cultures /
"Melodrama is one of the most important and most misunderstood categories in film studies. Challenging what have become conventional readings and attitudes toward melodrama, the contributors to this collection articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Film and culture
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams
- Prologue : the reach of melodrama / Christine Gledhill
- Unbinding melodrama / Matthew Buckley
- The Passion of Christ and the melodramatic imagination / Richard Allen
- Boucicault in Bombay : global theatre circuits and domestic melodrama in the Parsi theatre / Kathryn Hansen
- Global melodrama and transmediality in turn of the century Japan / Hannah Airriess
- Transnational melodrama, Wenyi, and the orphan imagination / Zhen Xhang
- Performing/acting melodrama / David Mayer and Helen Day-Mayer
- Melodrama and the making of Hollywood / Hilary A. Hallett
- Modernising melodrama : the petrified forest on American stage and screen (1935-1936) / Martin Shingler
- One suffers but one learns (melodrama and the rules of lack of limits) / Carlos Monsiváis ; trans. Kathleen M. Vernon
- World and time : serial television melodrama in America / Linda Williams
- Melodrama's "authenticity" in Carl Th. Dreyer's "La Passion de Jeanne D'arc" / Amanda Doxtater
- "Tales of sound and fury . . ." or, the elephant of melodrama / Linda Williams
- Repositioning excess : romantic melodrama's journey from Hollywood to China / Panpan Yang
- Melodrama and the aesthetics of emotion / Deirdre Pribam
- Indian melodrama, Bhava and the orchestration of affect / Ira Bhaskar
- The sorrow and the piety : melodrama rethought in post-war Italian cinema / Louis Bayman
- Costumes as melodrama : super fly, male costume and the larger-than-life / Drake Stutesman
- Melodrama and apocalypse : politics and the melodramatic mode in Contagion / Despina Kakoudaki
- Even more tears : the historical time theory of melodrama / Jane Gaines.