Melodrama : stage, picture, screen
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Melodrama : stage, picture, screen
British Film Institute, 1994
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Note
"This book draws on the papers presented at the international conference 'Melodrama: stage, picture, screen' held in London in 1992."--Back cover
Includes index
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Description
Drawn from papers presented at the 1992 international conference of the same name, held in London, this book offers a "state-of-the-art" survey of melodrama studies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines, including film theory, history, theatre studies and musicology, address the problems raised by the concept and the genre of melodrama, a popular dramatic fiction which spans Victorian and contemporary entertainment.
Table of Contents
Foreword and Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors and Editors Introduction Part I DEBATES Melodrama, Body, Revolution Peter Brooks Pauses of Mutual Agitation Simon Shepherd The Contending Discourses of Melodrama Jacky Bratton The Horror of Opacity - The Melodrama of Sensation in the Plays of Andre de Lorde Tom Gunning PART 2 TRANSFORMATIONS Scattered Chiaroscuro - Melodrama as a Matter of Seeing I Meisel Olympian Dreamscapes: The Photographic Canvas The Wide-screen Paintings of Leighton, Poynter and Alma-Tadema Caroline Dunant East Lynne to Gaslight - Hollywood. Melodrama and Twentieth-century Notions of the Victorian Guy Barefoot Music and the Melodramatic Past of New German Cinema Caryl Flinn PART 3 REVISIONS 'It will be a magnificent obsession' - The Melodrama's Role in the Development of Contemporary Film Theory Laura Mulvey 'Local' Genres - The Hollywood Adult Film in the 1950s Barbara Klinger Having a Good Cry over The Colour Purple - The Problem of Affect and Imperialism in Feminist Film Theory Jane Shattuc Realist Melodrama and the African-American Family - Billy Woodberry's Bless Their Little Hearts Chuck Kleinhans Society and Subjectivity - On the Political Economy of Chinese Melodrama Nick Browne PART 4 POLITICS Melodrama and Revolution Daniel Gerould Vigilante Chronicle - The Politics of Melodrama Brought to Life David Grimstead The Social Evil, the Moral Order and the Melodramatic Imagination, 1890-1915 Richard Maltby Fire and Desire - Race, Melodrama, and Oscar Micheaux Jane Gaines Index.
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