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008			180604s2018 nyu ob 001 0 eng
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050	1	0	_aPN1995 _b.M456 2018
049			_aMAIN
245	1	0	_aMelodrama unbound : _bacross history, media, and national cultures / _cedited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c(c)2018.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	0		_aFilm and culture
520	0		_a"Melodrama is one of the most important and most misunderstood categories in film studies. Challenging what have become conventional readings and attitudes toward melodrama, the contributors to this collection articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness in global film culture, and its distinct ability to depict our understanding of the world. Melodrama Unbound includes essays by leading film scholars and historians to provide new approaches to melodrama that challenge some of the most persistent assumptions about the genre: that it is a Western form aimed at women and characterized by overwrought emotions. Thus, the essays examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in new places such as India, China, Japan, and South America; the melodramatic aspects of action genres that appeal to both male and female audiences; how melodrama mixes with other genres such as romance, comedy, and even realism; how melodrama speaks to the realities of everyday life and dramatizes and expresses vital experiences for audiences; and the genre's relationship to history and modernity. Divided into two sections - "Melodrama's Transnational Histories" and "Aesthetics and Politics: Debates in Melodrama Theory"--The book will be a strong mix of film history and theory"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction / _rChristine Gledhill and Linda Williams -- _tPrologue : the reach of melodrama / _rChristine Gledhill -- _tUnbinding melodrama / _rMatthew Buckley -- _tThe Passion of Christ and the melodramatic imagination / _rRichard Allen -- _tBoucicault in Bombay : global theatre circuits and domestic melodrama in the Parsi theatre / _rKathryn Hansen -- _tGlobal melodrama and transmediality in turn of the century Japan / _rHannah Airriess -- _tTransnational melodrama, Wenyi, and the orphan imagination / _rZhen Xhang -- _tPerforming/acting melodrama / _rDavid Mayer and Helen Day-Mayer -- _tMelodrama and the making of Hollywood / _rHilary A. Hallett -- _tModernising melodrama : the petrified forest on American stage and screen (1935-1936) / _rMartin Shingler -- _tOne suffers but one learns (melodrama and the rules of lack of limits) / _rCarlos Monsiváis ; trans. Kathleen M. Vernon -- _tWorld and time : serial television melodrama in America / _rLinda Williams -- _tMelodrama's "authenticity" in Carl Th. Dreyer's "La Passion de Jeanne D'arc" / _rAmanda Doxtater -- _t"Tales of sound and fury . . ." or, the elephant of melodrama / _rLinda Williams -- _tRepositioning excess : romantic melodrama's journey from Hollywood to China / _rPanpan Yang -- _tMelodrama and the aesthetics of emotion / _rDeirdre Pribam -- _tIndian melodrama, Bhava and the orchestration of affect / _rIra Bhaskar -- _tThe sorrow and the piety : melodrama rethought in post-war Italian cinema / _rLouis Bayman -- _tCostumes as melodrama : super fly, male costume and the larger-than-life / _rDrake Stutesman -- _tMelodrama and apocalypse : politics and the melodramatic mode in Contagion / _rDespina Kakoudaki -- _tEven more tears : the historical time theory of melodrama / _rJane Gaines.
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650		0	_aMelodrama in motion pictures _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aMelodrama _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aGledhill, Christine, _e5
700	1		_aWilliams, Linda, _d1946- _e5
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1719946&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell