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Melodrama in contemporary film and television
- Title
- Melodrama in contemporary film and television / edited by Michael Stewart, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stewart, Michael Patrick James
- Description
- xvi, 246 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: film and tv melodrama: an overview -- Television melodrama. Time, space and seriality in contemporary melodramatic television -- Melodrama and the classic television serial / Richard Butt -- Nature, culture, space: the melodramatic topographies of Lark rise to Candleford / Douglas McNaughton -- "We are like that only": prime time family melodramas on Indian television / Shoma Munshi -- Gender, sexuality and excess in contemporary US television melodrama. On the "Scalpel's edge": gory excess, melodrama and irony in nip/tuck / Alexia Smit -- "Blood, sugar, sex, magik": unearthing gay male anxieties in queer gothic soaps Dante's cove and The lair / Darren Elliott-Smith -- Don't stop believing: textual excess and discourses of satisfaction in the finale of The Sopranos / Marty Zeller-Jacques -- Film melodrama. Memory, cultural trauma and destiny in contemporary film melodrama -- Melodrama as history and nostalgia: reading Hong Kong director Yonfan's Prince of tears / Kenneth Chan -- Vincere: a "strikingly effective" contemporary film melodrama / Anne Gailly -- Vienna to Beijing: Xu Jinglei's Letter from an unknown woman and the symbolic simulation of Europe / Sarah Artt -- Deconstructing melodramatic destiny: Late marriage and Two lovers / Robert Lang -- Rethinking melodrama and realism in contemporary film. Anticipating home: The edge of heaven as melodrama / Michael Stewart -- Framing a hybrid tradition: realism and melodrama in About Elly / Taraneh Dadar.
- Call Number
- MFL 14-8066
- ISBN
- 9781137319845
- 1137319844
- LCCN
- 2014018844
- 40023934406
- OCLC
- 871331382
- Title
- Melodrama in contemporary film and television / edited by Michael Stewart, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Stewart, Michael Patrick James, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40023934406
- Research Call Number
- MFL 14-8066