Melodrama and Asian cinema

Melodrama and Asian cinema

by Dissanayake, Wimal

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This study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.

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  • Full title :Melodrama and Asian cinema / edited by Wimal Dissanayake.

Summary

This study examines the importance of melodrama in the film traditions of Japan, India, China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2005.
  • Edition:1st pbk. version

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The Physical Object

  • Description:281 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:052161208X, 9780521612081, 9780521414654, 0521414652
  • oclc:ocm62247244
  • LC Classification:PN1993.5.A75
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43095

Table of Contents

Melodrama/subjectivity/ideology : Western melodrama theories and their relevance to recent Chinese cinema / E. Ann Kaplan -- Symbolic representation and symbolic violence : Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980s / Ma Ning -- The goddess : reflections on melodrama East and West / William Rothman -- Melodrama as historical understanding : the making and unmaking of communist history / Yuejin Wang -- Melodrama, postmodernism, and Japanese cinema / Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto -- Inscribing the subject : the melodramatization of gender in An actor's revenge / Scott Nygren -- Insides and outsides : cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama / Catherine Russell -- Psyches, ideologies, and melodrama : the United States and Japan / Maureen Turim.

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Subjects

Asia Melodrama in motion pictures Mélodrames (Films) Motion pictures Motion Pictures -- Asia

Writers

Dissanayake, Wimal

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