Melodrama

Basic Information

Title

Melodrama

Subtitle

Stage, Picture, Screen

Parallel Title

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Country

국외

Production Date

1994-**-**

Language

영어

Size (mm)

150 x 235

Pages

250쪽

ISBN/ISSN

0851704387

Edition

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Master Files

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Producer

Jacky Bratton, Jim Cook, Christine Gledhill (편저자), British Film Institute (발행처)

Description

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Contents

Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments = ix Notes on Contributors and Editors = xi Introduction / Jacky Bratton ; Jim Cook ; Christine Gledhill = 1 Part 1 Debates Melodrama, Body Revolution / Peter Brooks = 11 Pauses of Mutual Agitation / Simon Shepherd = 25 The Contending Discourses of Melodrama / Jacky Bratton = 38 The Horror of Opacity : The Melodrama of Sensation in the Plays of André de Lorde / Tom Gunning = 50 Part 2 Transformations Scattered Chiaroscuro : Melodrama as a Matter of Seeing / Martin Meisel = 65 Olympian Dreamscapes : The Photographic Canvas : The Wide-screen Paintings of Leighton Poynter and Alma-Tadema / Caroline Dunant = 82 East Lynne to Gas Light : HollyWood, Melodrama and Twentieth-century Notions of the Victorian / Guy Barefoot = 94 Music and the Melodramatic Past of New German Cinema / Caryl Flinn = 106 Part 3 Revisions ‘It will be a magnificent obsession’ : The Melodrama’s Role in the Development of Contemporary Film Theory / Laura Mulvey = 121 ‘Local’ Genres : The Hollywood Adult Film in the 1950s / Barbara Klinger = 134 Having a Good Cry over The Color Purple : The Problem of Affect and Imperialism in Feminist Theory / Jane Shattuc = 147 Realist Melodrama and The African-American Family : Billy Woodberry’s Bless Their Little Hearts / Chuck Kleinhans = 157 Society and Subjectivity : On the Political Economy of Chinese Melodrama Nick Browne = 167 Part 4 Politics Melodrama and Revolution / Daniel Gerould = 185 Vigilante Chronicle : The Politics of Melodrama Brought to Life / David Grimsted = 199 The Social Evil, the Moral Order and the Melodramatic Imagination, 1890-1915 / Richard Maltby = 214 Fire and Desire : Race, Melodrama, and Oscar Micheaux / Jane Gaines = 231 Index = 246

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