Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television MelodramaMarcia Landy Wayne State University Press, 1991 - 619 pagina's This collection of important essays examines melodrama from a variety of perspectives--chronological, theoretical, international, and feminist. Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in psychoanalysis and semiotics, setting the stage for the essays that follow. The book's seven sections examine the history of melodrama, its emphasis on emotional excess, its manicheanism, and its dependence on non-verbal strategies to communicate. Essays focus on the family melodramas of the 1950s, the role of Hollywood directors and stars in the development of the genre, and melodrama in the silent films and on television. The book concludes with an exploration of the use of melodrama in European and Latin American cinema, both silent and sound. Imitations of Life thus provides a variety of perspectives-chronological, theoretical, and international-on the genre while investigating its cultural, social, and political significance. |
Inhoudsopgave
Preface | 11 |
THE MELODRAMATIC CONTEXT | 31 |
The Melodramatic Imagination Peter Brooks | 50 |
Observations on the Family Melodrama | 68 |
II | 93 |
Russian Formalist Theories of Melodrama Daniel Gerould | 118 |
Ways of Melodrama Raymond Durgnat | 135 |
The Family Melodrama | 148 |
Skin Color and Caste in Black Silent Melodrama | 331 |
D W Griffith A Nicholas Vardac | 353 |
A Style for the Times | 362 |
Frank Borzage | 371 |
Marylee Hadley in Written on the Wind | 380 |
The Operatics of History Naomi Greene | 388 |
The Collective Voice as Cultural Voice Christine Saxton | 398 |
Four Films of Lana Turner Richard Dyer | 409 |
The Maternal Melodrama in American | 168 |
The Family Plot | 183 |
Notes on Melodrama and the Family under Capitalism | 197 |
Warners Marked Woman | 205 |
The Double Bind of the PostWar Woman | 227 |
Madness Authority and Ideology in the Domestic Melodrama | 237 |
Melodrama and the Womens Picture Pam Cook | 248 |
IV | 263 |
Report on the Weekend School Griselda Pollock | 275 |
Pathos and the Maternal | 283 |
Stella Dallas and the Maternal | 307 |
Joan Crawford | 429 |
VI | 441 |
Notes on Soap Opera Charlotte Brunsdon | 466 |
Dallas and the Melodramatic Imagination Ien Ang | 473 |
A ReaderOriented Poetics of the Soap Opera Robert C Allen | 496 |
Men Sex and Money in Recent Family Melodramas | 525 |
French Film Melodrama Before and After the Great | 542 |
The Family Melodrama in the Italian Cinema 19291943 | 569 |
Katherine S Woodward | 586 |
Films Telenovelas and | 596 |
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