Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television : Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects 9780739172544, 9780739172537

The notion of mode is critical in the reevaluation of melodrama. As a mode, melodrama appears not only as a dramatic gen

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Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television : Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects
9780739172544, 9780739172537

Examines representations of ancient epic and epic conventions in film and television Demonstrates how adaptation and rev

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The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series Works discussed include: Sunset Blvd., Felli

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Appreciating Melodrama: Theory and Practice in Indian Cinema and Television seeks to identify and appreciate the continu

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Hands on Film is a comprehensive study of the representations and uses of that human limb from the birth of cinema to co

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This collection of essays by leading American film scholars charts a whole new territory in genre film criticism. Rather

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Imperial Affectsis the first sustained account of American action-based cinema as melodrama. From the earliest war films

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This book explores how popular film and television genres frame our understanding of on-screen performance. It brings to

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In this book, Eleonora Ravizza analyzes how contemporary American popular culture has represented and reproduced the fif

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