Melodrama : an aesthetics of impossibility
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Melodrama : an aesthetics of impossibility
（Theory Q）
Duke University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama, such as impasses in sexual relations that are not simply reflections of social taboo and prohibitions, Goldberg pursues films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to Sirk's prompt. His analysis hones in on melodrama's original definition--a form combining music and drama--as he explores the use of melodrama in Beethoven's opera Fidelio, films by Alfred Hitchcock, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith, including her Ripley novels. Goldberg illuminates how music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories meant to regulate social life. The interaction of musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making it resistant to normative forms of value and a powerful tool for creating new potentials.
目次
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xvii
Part I. The Impossible Situation
1. Agency and Identity: The Melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio 3
2. Identity and Identification: Sirk-Fassbinder-Haynes 23
Part II. Melos + Drama
3. The Art of Murder: Hitchcock and Highsmith 83
4. Wildean Aesthetics: From "Paul's Case" to Lucy Gayheart 133
Coda 155
Notes 169
Bibliography 187
Index 197
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