Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television [electronic resource] /
Stewart, M.editor.
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Film and TV Melodrama: An Overview; Part I: Television Melodrama; Section I: Time, Space and Seriality in Contemporary Melodramatic Television; 2 Melodrama and the Classic Television Serial; 3 Nature, Culture, Space: The Melodramatic Topographies of Lark Rise to Candleford; 4 ''We Are Like That Only'': Prime Time Family Melodramas on Indian Television; Section II: Gender, Sexuality and Excess in Contemporary US Television Melodrama
5 On the ''Scalpel''s Edge'': Gory Excess, Melodrama and Irony in Nip/Tuck6 ''Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik'': Unearthing Gay Male Anxietiesin Queer Gothic Soaps Dante''s Cove (2005-2007) and The Lair (2007-2009); 7 Don''t Stop Believing: Textual Excess and Discourses of Satisfaction in the Finale of The Sopranos; Part II: Film Melodrama; Section III: Memory, Cultural Trauma and Destiny in Contemporary Film Melodrama; 8 Melodrama as History and Nostalgia: Reading Hong Kong Director Yonfan''s Prince of Tears; 9 Vincere: A ''Strikingly Effective'' Contemporary Film Melodrama
10 Vienna to Beijing: Xu Jinglei''s Letter from an Unknown Woman (China, 2004) and the Symbolic Simulation of Europe11 Deconstructing Melodramatic Destiny: Late Marriage (2001) and Two Lovers (2008); Section IV: Rethinking Melodrama and Realism in Contemporary Film; 12 Anticipating Home: The Edge of Heaven as Melodrama; 13 Framing a Hybrid Tradition: Realism and Melodrama in About Elly; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—United States.
Motion pictures—History.
Film genres.
Communication.
Screen Studies.
American Cinema and TV.
Film History.
Genre.
Media Studies.