Melodrama Genre, Style, Sensibility

Name: Melodrama Genre, Style, Sensibility
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ISBN: 9781904764021

ISBN-10: 1904764029

ISBN-13: 9781904764021

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Mercer, Martin Shingler

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Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate film studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, as a specific cinematic style, epitomised by the work of Douglas Sirk or as a sensibility that emerges in the context of specific texts, speaking to and reflecting the desires, concerns and anxieties of audiences. Films discussed include All That Heaven Allows, Safe, Fear Eats the Soul, Black Narcissus, Suddenly Last Summer and Rebel Without a…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Publication date: 1/19/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.85" long x 0.04" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

John Mercer is a lecturer in Film and Media Studies and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK. Martin Shingler is the co-author of On Air: Methods and Meanings in Radio(Arnold) with Cindy Wieringa. He has contibuted to Screen Acting(Routledge) and Hollywood Spectatorship(BFI).



Table of Illustrations


Introduction



Genre



Style



Sensibility Conclusion Filmography


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