Refiguring melodrama in film and television : captive affects, elastic sufferings, vicarious objects /

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zarzosa, Agustín, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2013.
Subjects:
Melodrama in motion pictures.
Melodrama on television.
Mélodrames (Films)
Mélodrame à la télévision.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Melodrama in motion pictures
Melodrama on television
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the outwitted critic
  • Modalities of melodrama
  • Affect, affection, affectation
  • Diagnosing suffering
  • Trafficking in sacred objects
  • Sacrifice and the animal melodrama
  • The excesses of the posthuman melodrama
  • The outside and the coincidence machine
  • Conclusion: tragedy and melodrama.

Similar Items