Results 11 to 20 of about 60,776 (209)
The narrative governance of life: Morality, melodrama, and the limits of biopower in western Indian efforts against sex selection. [PDF]
Med Anthropol QAbstract Selective abortion of female fetuses is a widespread, illegal, and profoundly consequential form of family planning in contemporary India. In Gujarat state, public health campaigns against the practice rely on narratives exhibiting the hallmarks of melodrama: good–evil binaries, stock characters, emotional provocations, simplistic diagnoses ...
Sandesara UN.
europepmc +2 more sources
Matrizes, 2022 O artigo apresenta quatro ontologias possíveis por meio da natureza, composição, finalidade e localização das relações entre o excesso e o melodrama nas narrativas midiáticas.
Anderson Lopes da Silva
doaj
Telenovela: Amor en custodia una telaraña sentimental
Chasqui, 2007 Trata sobre el melodrama y el desarrollo de este en la telenovela "Amor en custodia". Destaca que mediante la explotación del potencial sentimental de los receptores- perceptores, el melodrama cumple una labor educativa.
Manuel de Jesús Corral Corral
doaj +1 more source
Revista Brasileira de História da Mídia, 2019 Si bien el melodrama es un género moderno que consiguió un lugar central en la industria cultural, no fue sino hasta la década de 1970que la crítica inició un proceso que condujo a su legitimación cultural.
Mirta Varela
doaj +1 more source
Narrativas de la posmodernidad. Del sentimiento como forma a la imagen melodramática [PDF]
, 2009 This paper constitutes a short crossing from postmodernity (defined by paradoxes) to melodrama. The aim is to account for the structure of cinematographic narratives, which develops through forms-feelings as pain and its representation.
Cano Alarcón, Lirba Mayela +1 more
core +5 more sources
The “family romance” comes out of the closet: the female fantasy in Sévigné (Julia Berkowitz)
Feminismo/s, 2012 This essay tackles the study of Sévigné (Julia Berkowitz) (2004), by the Catalan filmaker Marta Balletbó-Coll, from a feminist perspective that deals with the specific Oedipal transgressions of the film with regard to the classical «Maternal Melodrama ...
Leire Ituarte Pérez
doaj +1 more source
“¿Cuánto duró ese abrazo inigualable?” Recursos melodramáticos en la narrativa argentina de HIJOS
Confluenze, 2023 The aim of this contribution is to advance the hypothesis of a possible reading under the prism of the melodramatic mode of narratives belonging to the corpus of the generation of Argentinean HIJOS that focus on the theme of intergenerational affective ...
Federico Cantoni
doaj +1 more source
MatLit, 2014 This paper addresses the happy ending in Greek tragedy – viewed as the first audiovisual mass-culture manifestation –, connecting features specifically assigned to tragedy and melodrama, such as ex-machina endings and the Aristotelian alogon, pathos ...
Maria Joana Melo
doaj +1 more source
Annie Proulx’s Imaginative Leap: Constructing Gay Masculinity in “Brokeback Mountain” [PDF]
, 2012 Non-heterosexual men have long existed on the social and cultural margins. Gay and bisexual male characters in literature, too, have done so for many generations.
Hart Kylo-Patrick R.
core +2 more sources
Economie del grottesco nell’opera letteraria di Balzac: Le cousin Pons
Itinera, 2013 The essay focuses on relations between grotesque and melodrama in Balzac’s literary works. Unlike Victor Hugo, the grotesque takes up a specific function in the narrative and dramatic economy of Balzac’s novels.
Michele Bertolini
doaj +1 more source