Melodrama and Modernity
A remarkably readable work on the contextual relationship of modernity to stage and screen melodramas in the early 20th century.... He accompanies his text with one of the best and most unusual selections of illustrated materials this reviewer has ever seen... He elucidates the cluster ideas of both melodrama and modernity with uncommon good sense and clarity. Highly recommended.(T. LindvallChoice)A fluent, precise, and excellently historicized account of the interaction between early narrative film and the processes of industrial modernization.(Modernism/Modernity)Singer's excellent monographyMelodrama and Modernityoperates firmly within this historiographic field.(Melanie NashCinema and Its Context)