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From Queen Caroline to Lady Dedlock: Dickens and the popular radical imagination [PDF]
On an autumn day in 1842, William Hone lay dying. He was by now an obscure figure, but through the services of an old friend, George Cruikshank, he sent a request to Charles Dickens that he might shake his hand before he died.
Ledger, Sally
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The Temple of Morality: Thomas Holcroft and the Swerve of Melodrama [PDF]
Roll 43a. Repository (Col.Ch.) / Tre Ore (Col.Ch.). Image 12 of 59. (2 April, 1953; 3 April, 1953) [PHO 1.43a.13]The Boleslaus Lukaszewski (Father Luke) Photographs contain more than 28,000 images of Saint Louis University people, activities, and events ...
Hoeveler, Diane
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Colour Consciousness and Design in Blanche Fury as Technicolor Melodrama
This article addresses colour and music as elements associated with the rhetoric and excesses of film melodrama through a case study of Blanche Fury (1947).
Watkins, EI
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Bosnian Drama and Theater: Some Literary and Theatrical Aspects
This text is an introduction to the thematic block of the journal Social Sciences and Humanities Studies on the literary and theatrical aspects of Bosnian drama and theater.
Almir Bašović
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The representation of conflict in the discourse of Italian melodrama [PDF]
This paper is part of an extensive study of cinematic dialogue in a variety of film genres in Italian, which aims to address the disregard for the verbal plane that characterises film theory and, particularly, genre theory.
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Desde 2015 as telenovelas turcas têm recebido grande espaço no cenário brasileiro, primeiramente por iniciativa da Rede de Televisão Bandeirantes e posteriormente através de grupos em redes sociais em que diversas telenovelas são legendadas para o ...
Pricyla Weber Imaral
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With its origins in the novel and the theater, melodrama appeared in late 18th-century Europe and reached maturity at the turn of the 20th century. In the United States, the incipient film industry adopted it as a vehicle for suspense and action stories aimed at a mass audience.
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Queer Cinema and Melodrama: A Perspective from Queer Directors
This article examines the relationship between queer cinema and melodrama through the works of queer directors like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Todd Haynes, and Ümit Ünal.
Esra Yılmaz, Çiğdem Tanyel Başar
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Cinema e jornalismo: o melodrama e a tragédia moderna
O cinema clássico e o jornalismo possuem formas de narrar aproximáveis. Eles são semelhantes na busca da “objetividade” e na ênfase ao melodrama e ao «espetáculo» como eixo de identificação do espectador.
Lisandro Nogueira
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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Abstract Mid‐nineteenth century fictional representations of misdirected investment by widows and clergy position them as ignorant in financial matters and hence pitiable. While scholars have recognised female agency in nineteenth century commerce, insufficient attention has been paid to religious belief in financial decision‐making.
Jennifer Jones, Susan Poole
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