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Melodrama and modernity : early sensational cinema and its contexts
- Title
- Melodrama and modernity : early sensational cinema and its contexts / Ben Singer.
- Author
- Singer, Ben.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2001], ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1995.9.M45 S56 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 363 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Film and culture
- Uniform Title
- Film and culture.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-355) and indexes.
- Contents
- 1. Meanings of Modernity -- 2. Meanings of Melodrama -- 3. Sensationalism and the World of Urban Modernity -- 4. Making Sense of the Modernity Thesis -- 5. Melodrama and the Consequences of Capitalism -- 6. Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodrama: Boom and Bust -- 7. "Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art!": Early Film Melodrama -- 8. Power and Peril in the Serial-Queen Melodrama -- 9. Marketing Melodrama: Serials and Intertextuality.
- ISBN
- 0231113285 (alk. paper)
- 0231113293 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 00064547
- OCLC
- ocm45094006
- SCSB-4125445
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries