Global Melodrama [electronic resource] : Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film /
Marcantonio, Carla.author.
Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Global Melodrama -- 1. Biopolitical Embodiments: Talk to Her and The Skin I Live In -- 2. Costume Changes, Overlapping Histories: In the Mood for Love and 2046 -- 3. Border-crossing the Global Imaginary: The Bubble and Babel -- 4. Melodrama and Global Neorealism: Colossal Youth and The World -- Conclusion: Of Gravity and Tears.
Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization.
Motion pictures-History.
Sociology.
Motion pictures and television.
Arts.
Film genres.
Film History.
Gender Studies.
Screen Studies.
Arts.
Genre.