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Global melodrama : nation, body, and history in contemporary film

Title
Global melodrama : nation, body, and history in contemporary film / Carla Marcantonio.
Author
Marcantonio, Carla, 1970-
Publication
  • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • ©2015

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Description
xi, 189 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Global cinema
Uniform Title
Global cinema.
Subject
  • Melodrama in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures and globalization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Global Melodrama -- 1. Biopolitical Embodiments: Talk to Her and The Skin I Live In -- 2. Costume Changes, Overlapping Histories: In the Mood for Love and 2046 -- 3. Border-crossing the Global Imaginary: The Bubble and Babel -- 4. Melodrama and Global Neorealism: Colossal Youth and The World -- Conclusion: Of Gravity and Tears.
Call Number
MFL 16-109
ISBN
  • 9781137530615 (hardback)
  • 1137530618 (hardback)
  • 9781137528216 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781137528193 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015027826
OCLC
927381657
Author
Marcantonio, Carla, 1970- author.
Title
Global melodrama : nation, body, and history in contemporary film / Carla Marcantonio.
Publisher
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Global cinema
Global cinema.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 16-109
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