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-Jac…
"The history of the book in nineteenth-century Japan follows an uneven course that resists the simple chronology often used to mark a divide between premodern and modern literary history." "By examining the obscured histories of publication, circulation, and reception of widely …
This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture…
Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance…
This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture…
Ed: University of London, Distributed by Indiana University Press, Based on proceedings, London, 1992.
Ed: University of London, Distributed by Indiana University Press, Based on proceedings, London, 1992.