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Melodrama Unbound - Across History, Media, and National Cultures (Hardcover)
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Melodrama Unbound - Across History, Media, and National Cultures (Hardcover)
Series: Film and Culture Series
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For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and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.
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