Imitations of Life
Reader on Film and Television Melodrama
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 t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8143-2065-5
- EAN: 9780814320655
- Produktnummer: 23360956
- Verlag: Wayne State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 619 S.
- Masse: H15.7 cm x B23.7 cm x D3.9 cm 830 g
- Gewicht: 830
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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