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From Queen Caroline to Lady Dedlock: Dickens and the popular radical imagination [PDF]
, 2004 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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Cinema e jornalismo: o melodrama e a tragédia moderna
Rumores, 2008 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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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
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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.
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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
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Gothic Opera in Britain and France: Genre, Nationalism, and Trans-Cultural Angst [PDF]
, 2004 Rescue operas developed along two somewhat different lines: “tyrant” operas and “humanitarian” operas within the general category of “opera semiseria,” or “opéra comique.” The first type corresponds to the conservative British “loyalty gothic,” with its ...
Cordova, Sarah Davies, Hoeveler, Diane
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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
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The representation of conflict in the discourse of Italian melodrama [PDF]
, 2006 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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Colour Consciousness and Design in Blanche Fury as Technicolor Melodrama
, 2010 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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The Temple of Morality: Thomas Holcroft and the Swerve of Melodrama [PDF]
, 2003 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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