Living Screens - Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Disruptions
Release date:	August 2015
Authors:	Monique Rooney
Dimensions:	217 x 142 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-78348-047-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
LSN:	1-78348-047-5
Barcode:	9781783480470

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