Global Melodrama

Author : Carla Marcantonio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137528192
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Melodrama written by Carla Marcantonio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization.

Author : Heike Paul
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839459737
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lexicon of Global Melodrama written by Heike Paul and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent ›arthouse‹ productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.

Author : Carla Marcantonio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137528192
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Melodrama written by Carla Marcantonio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization.

Author : Frank Rahill
Publisher : University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Melodrama written by Frank Rahill and published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christine Gledhill
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543190
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melodrama Unbound written by Christine Gledhill and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women. Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama is a transgeneric mode that has long spoken to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Pointing to melodrama’s roots in the ancient Greek combination of melos and drama, and to medieval Christian iconography focused on the pathos of Christ as suffering human body, the volume highlights the importance to modernity of melodrama as a mode of emotional dramaturgy, the social and aesthetic conditions for which emerged long before the French Revolution. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. They examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in India, China, Japan, and South America, whether through colonial circuits or later, globalization; how melodrama mixes with other modes such as romance, comedy, and realism; and finally how melodrama has modernized the dramatic functions of gender, class, and race by orchestrating vital aesthetic and emotional experiences for diverse audiences.

Author : Carolyn Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108606113
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama written by Carolyn Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly commissioned series of essays by leading scholars is the first volume to offer both an overview of the field and also current emerging critical views on the history, form, and influence of English melodrama. Authoritative voices provide an introduction to melodrama's early formal features such as tableaux and music, and trace the development of the genre in the nineteenth century through the texts and performances of its various sub-genres, the theatres within which the plays were performed, and the audiences who watched them. The historical contexts of melodrama are considered through essays on topics including contemporary politics, class, gender, race, and empire. And the extensive influences of melodrama are demonstrated through a wide-ranging assessment of its ongoing and sometimes unexpected expressions - in psychoanalysis, in other art forms (the novel, film, television, musical theatre), and in popular culture generally - from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

Author : Susan Dever
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791457634
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celluloid Nationalism and Other Melodramas written by Susan Dever and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-07-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.

Author : S. Tumino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230117023
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Theory After the Contemporary written by S. Tumino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary cultural studies have marginalized "agency," namely the power of people to shape social life. Here, Stephen Tumino offers a new materialist challenge to these tendencies and articulates an internationalist cultural theory that puts global agency in the forefront of cultural analysis.

Author : Daniel Charles Gerould
Publisher : New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Melodrama written by Daniel Charles Gerould and published by New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerould goes a long way toward 'revisioning' the genre.--Nineteenth-Century Theatre Research

Author : Kinga Földváry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526142112
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboy Hamlets and zombie Romeos written by Kinga Földváry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly and reader-friendly, and its subject is fundamentally interdisciplinary, combining the findings of Shakespeare scholarship with film and media studies, particularly genre theory. The book is organised into six large chapters, discussing films that form broad generic groups. Part I looks at three genres from the classical Hollywood era (western, melodrama and gangster-noir), while Part II deals with three contemporary blockbuster genres (teen film, undead horror and biopic). Beside a few better-known examples of mainstream cinema, the volume also highlights the Shakespearean elements in several nearly forgotten films, bringing them back to critical attention.