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Homecomings: Black Women’s Mobility in Early African American Fiction
European Journal of American Studies, 2020 In this article, I examine the patterns of black female mobility as represented in three African American mulatta novels: William Wells Brown’s Clotel (1853), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Iola Leroy (1893), and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins’s Hagar’s ...
Anna Pochmara
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International Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2022 In the American adaptation of the Norwegian youth drama SKAM (2015-2017), the translation of feminist discourse informing the plot shifts the conflict from a social, political, and democratic level to a question of liberation from within.
Dag Skarstein +1 more
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Queer Cinema and Melodrama: A Perspective from Queer Directors
CINEJ Cinema JournalThis 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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Faith, gender and financial investment: Providence and Presbyterianism in Scotland and abroad
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.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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Victorian Literature and Culture, 2018 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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The Concept of "Self" and the "Other" in Western Movies [PDF]
, 2001 Melodrama has been a part of the American life since colonial time. This genre, with its \u27hero-villain\u27 or \u27black and white\u27 development of characters, has formed the idea of the American heroes.
Basuki, R. (Ribut)
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Melodrama and Narrative Fiction: Towards a Typology [PDF]
, 2017 Recent research on melodrama has stressed its versatility and ubiquity by approaching it as a mode of expression rather than a theatrical genre. A variety of contexts in which melodrama is at work have been explored, but only little scholarly attention ...
Straub, Julia
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THE RIGHT STUFF: From Western to melodrama and comedy
NECSUS, 2016 THE RIGHT STUFF (1983), directed by Philip Kaufman, has explored which genre conventions were appropriate for space travel. The film first uses the Hollywood Western, as has been acknowledged by several authors.
Wim Staat
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Negociación y ruptura en Tres días con la familia: la nueva generación del melodrama familiar
Comunicación, 2022 A lo largo de la historia del cine, la familia ha funcionado como la base narrativa del material melodramático. En ‘Tres días con la familia’, Mar Coll pone en cuestión los códigos cinematográficos del melodrama con respecto a la feminidad, la ...
Beatriz Herrero Jiménez +1 more
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