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Melodrama: Metropolis: Modernity [PDF]
The principal aim of this thesis is to extend current understandings of the dynamics of stage melodrama, as it was practised on the stages of the minor theatres in London during the second quarter of the nineteenth century, specifically by exploring the ...
Reid, Margaret
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The Dangerous Woman of Melvillean Melodrama [PDF]
, 1996 Almost in its death throes at the turn of the present century, sensational melodrama threw up a curious mutation at the hands of the prolific playwrights and managers, the brothers Walter and Frederick Melville.
Aston, Elaine, Clarke, Ian
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Typology of the Female Characters in D.S. Merezhkovsky’s and Z.N. Gippius’ Plays [PDF]
Studia Litterarum, 2023 The article reveals patterns in the construction of female characters in the entire corpus of D.S. Merezhkovsky’s and Z.N. Gippius’ dramas. Although their plays are connected by a number of common motifs, themes and images, the construction of femininity
Veronika B. Zuseva-Özkan
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Mexican Melodrama in the Age of Netflix: Algorithms for Cultural Proximity
Comunicación y Sociedad, 2020 By using algorithms to track the data of their users in Mexico, Netflix has managed to solve the equation of cultural proximity. Since 2015 it has produced original series that include melodramatic traits, even if they align with genres like comedy ...
Elia Cornelio-Marí
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A Modernidade Contra as Lágrimas: O Melodrama e o Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
Rebeca, 2021 Apresentando um projeto de superação do velho cinema da América Latina, os cineastas do Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, teorizaram propostas de “novidade” dentro da modernidade cinematográfica, almejando a construção de uma estética revolucionária ...
Henrique Rodrigues Marques +1 more
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Blindness Challenging Melodrama in Your Eyes Tell (2020) and Blind Massage (2014)
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 2023 While blindness has been a recurring motif in melodramatic fiction films, this article argues that some contemporary East Asian films about blindness provide a template for challenging ableism and melodramatic conventions via textual analysis.
Xinyi Wang
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Akademisk Kvarter, 2013 Classical Hollywood melodrama, often referred to as “women’s films,” are defined through their heightened emotional intensity and their confrontation of social issues. While usually regarded as finished by the late 1950s, in the past decade melodrama has
Steen Christiansen
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Novos Estudos - CEBRAP, 2023 A primeira fala de Geni (Darlene Glória) em Toda nudez será castigada, peça de Nelson Rodrigues (1965) adaptada para o cinema por Arnaldo Jabor (1972), ecoa a fala de Lisa Berndle (Joan Fontaine) em Carta de uma desconhecida, filme dirigido por Max Ophüls, em 1948, nos Estados Unidos e baseado em novela homônima de Stefan Zweig (2015 [1922]).
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Balajú, 2021 En este artículo se discuten las posibilidades de comprensión del exceso en las teorías narrativas y estilísticas sobre el melodrama y la ficción seriada. La principal estrategia metodológica empleada es la investigación bibliográfica. La centralidad del
Anderson Lopes Da Silva
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Across Cultural and National Borders: Diasporic Chinese Family in Pushing Hands
CINEJ Cinema Journal, 2011 Being embedded in the interdisciplinary area of media and culture studies, this articlel explores the family melodrama in transnational Chinese cinema drawing upon theoretical discussions with regard to the historical emergence of melodrama in ...
Qijun Han
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