Since the early 70s, film theory has focused on melodrama as a particularly challenging genre. Feminism, in particular, has claimed a stake in re-examination of the form, raising many critical questions about the relation between gender and culture. This collection contains the …
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Introduction: ǂt The design of this book -- ǂg 1. ǂt The study of literary formulas -- ǂg 2. ǂt Notes toward a typology of literary formulas -- ǂg 3. ǂt The mythology of crime and its formulaic embodiments -- ǂg 4. ǂt The formula of the classical detective story -- ǂg 5. ǂt The …
From hell: being a melodrama in sixteen parts
by Moore, Alan, Mullins, Pete, Campbell, Eddie
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"Legendary comics writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell have created a gripping, hallucinatory piece of crime fiction about Jack the Ripper. Detailing the events that led up to the Whitechapel murders and the cover-up that followed, From Hell has become a modern masterpiec…
Die hier versammelten Studien beschäftigen sich mit der emotionalen Moderne. Eingebettet in das Feld des Melodrams, einen der prominentesten, da vielseitigsten und wandlungsfähigsten Darstellungsmodi der letzten 250 Jahre, verfolgen sie die kulturwissenschaftliche Frage, wie Gef…
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation analyzes white fantasies of interracial desire in the history of popular American film. From the first interracial screen kiss of 1903, through the Production Code's nearly thirty-year ban on depictions of "miscegenation," to the contemplatio…
British nautical melodramas, 1820-1850
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British nautical melodramas, 1820-1850
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Following the 1848 European revolutions, Robert Schumann began a period of prolific composition. Among the pieces he composed for domestic spaces at this time are five opus numbers—Schön Hedwig, op. 106, Zwei Balladen, op. 122, Spanisches Liederspiel, op. 74, Minnespiel, op. 101…
