Global melodrama
Subtitle: nation, body, and history in contemporary film
By: Carla Marcantonio
Series: Global cinema
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137530615
Subjects: Melodrama in motion pictures; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General; Motion pictures and globalization; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Description: "As Film Studies continues to move toward embracing the study of global cinema, this book argues for the significance of melodrama as a method through which to approach contemporary films such that we can still retain their local specificity while accounting for how they also respond to changes in the representation of time, space, and embodiment in the era of globalization"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Global Melodrama; title: 1. Biopolitical Embodiments: Talk to Her and The Skin I Live In; title: 2. Costume Changes, Overlapping Histories: In the Mood for Love and 2046; title: 3. Border-crossing the Global Imaginary: The Bubble and Babel; title: 4. Melodrama and Global Neorealism: Colossal Youth and The World; title: Conclusion: Of Gravity and Tears.