Melodrama Unbound -

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Résumé :
Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama speaks to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres.

Biographie:
Edited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams

Sommaire:
Prologue: The Reach of Melodrama, by Christine Gledhill
Acknowledgments
Introduction, by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams
Part I: Melodram?s Crossmedia, Transnational Histories
1. Unbinding Melodrama, by Matthew Buckley
2. The Passion of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination, by Richard Allen
3. Boucicault in Bombay: Global Theater Circuits and Domestic Melodrama in the Parsi Theater, by Kathryn Hansen
4. Global Melodrama and Transmediality in Turn-of-the-Century Japan, by Hannah Airriess
5. Transnational Melodrama, Wenyi, and the Orphan Imagination, by Zhen Zhang
6. Performing/Acting Melodrama, by Helen Day-Mayer and David Mayer
7. Melodrama and the Making of Hollywood, by Hilary A. Hallett
8. Modernizing Melodrama: The Petrified Forest on American Stage and Screen (1935?1936), by Martin Shingler
9. One Suffers but One Learns: Melodrama and the Rules of Lack of Limits, by Carlos Monsiv?is (trans. Kathleen M. Vernon)
10. World and Time: Serial Television Melodrama in America, by Linda Williams
11. Melodram?s ?Authenticity? in Carl Th. Dreyer?s La Passion de Jeanne d?Arc, by Amanda Doxtater
Part II: Cultural and Aesthetic Debates
12. ?Tales of Sound and Fury . . .? or, The Elephant of Melodrama, by Linda Williams
13. Repositioning Excess: Romantic Melodram?s Journey from Hollywood to China, by Panpan Yang
14. Melodrama and the Aesthetics of Emotion, by E. Deidre Pribram
15. Expressionist Aurality: The Stylized Aesthetic of Bhava in Indian Melodrama, by Ira Bhaskar
16. The Sorrow and the Piety: Melodrama Rethought in Postwar Italian Cinema, by Louis Bayman
17. Costumes as Melodrama: Super Fly, Male Costume, and the Larger-Than-Life, by Drake Stutesman
18. Melodrama and Apocalypse: Politics and the Melodramatic Mode in Contagion, by Despina Kakoudaki
19. Even More Tears: The Historical Time Theory of Melodrama, by Jane M. Gaines
Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index