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Imitations of Life - Reader on Film and Television Melodrama (Paperback)
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Imitations of Life - Reader on Film and Television Melodrama (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and
melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last
two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the
recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in
psychoanalysis and semiotics, setting the stage for the essays that
follow. The book's seven sections examine the history of melodrama,
its emphasis on emotional excess, its manicheanism, and its
dependence on non-verbal strategies to communicate. Essays focus on
the family melodramas of the 1950s, the role of Hollywood directors
and stars in the development of the genre, and melodrama in the
silent films and on television. The book concludes with an
exploration of the use of melodrama in European and Latin American
cinema, both silent and sound. Imitations of Life thus provides a
variety of perspectives-chronological, theoretical, and
international-on the genre while investigating its cultural,
social, and political significance.
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