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Living Screens - Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television (Hardcover)
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Living Screens - Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television (Hardcover)
Series: Disruptions
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Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed
melodramas (Matthew Weiner's Mad Men, Lars von Trier's Melancholia
and Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and
renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood.
Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's foundational,
Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old
story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that
this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary
melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media
today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a "plastic" form with the
capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental
processes of mediation. Living Screens evokes the thrills,
anxieties, and uncertainties accompanying our attachment to
technologies that are close-at-hand yet have far-reaching effects.
In doing so, it explores the plasticity of our current situation,
in which we live with screens that melodramatically touch our
lives.
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