Melodrama and Meaning History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk

Name: Melodrama and Meaning History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk
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ISBN: 9780253208750

ISBN-10: 0253208750

ISBN-13: 9780253208750

Edition: 1994

Authors: Barbara Klinger

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Melodrama and Meaningis a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema - academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass media - create meaning and ideological identity for films. Chapters focus on Sirk's place in the development of film studies from the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as the history of the critical reception (both academic and popular) of Sirk's films, a history that outlines journalism's role in public tastemaking. Other chapters are devoted to Universal's selling ofWritten on the Wind, the machinery of star publicity and the changing image of Rock…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 8/22/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English