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Collective Existence in Samson Samsonov’s Film “Odinokim predostavlyaetsya obshchezhitie” (Dormitory for Singles) [PDF]

Телекинет, 2022
The article provides a study of the features of the style and character system in Samson Samsonov’s film Dormitory for Singles (1983). An important aspect of the study is the problem of “collective existence”, which is analyzed by the author in a complex
Azerskaya, Irina Arkadyevna
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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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Um Trágico Final Feliz

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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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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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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Travelling Girlhood: Feminist Discourses as Narrative Resources for the American Adaptation of the Norwegian High-School Drama SKAM

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, Synnøve Skarsbø Lindtner   +1 more
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Melodrama [PDF]

Victorian Literature and Culture, 2012
Starting with Dickens himself, many critics have understood that melodrama is not the opposite of realism. This essay argues for the tight relation between Dickens’s parodies of melodrama and his adaptations or transformations of it. After considering the melodramatic alternation between tragic and comic scenes – theorised in Chapter 17 of Oliver Twist
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Queer Cinema and Melodrama: A Perspective from Queer Directors

CINEJ Cinema Journal
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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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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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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