Stewart, Michael
Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television
1. Introduction: Film and TV Melodrama: An Overview
1. Introduction: Film and TV Melodrama: An Overview
Michael Stewart
Part I. Television Melodrama
2. Melodrama and the Classic Television Serial
Richard Butt
3. Nature, Culture, Space: The Melodramatic Topographies of
Douglas McNaughton
4. ‘We Are Like That Only’: Prime Time Family Melodramas on Indian Television
Shoma Munshi
5. On the ‘Scalpel’s Edge’: Gory Excess, Melodrama and Irony in
Alexia Smit
6. ‘Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik’: Unearthing Gay Male Anxieties in Queer Gothic Soaps
Darren Elliott-Smith
7. Don’t Stop Believing: Textual Excess and Discourses of Satisfaction in the Finale of
Martin Zeller-Jacques
Part II. Film Melodrama
8. Melodrama as History and Nostalgia: Reading Hong Kong Director Yonfan’s
Kenneth Chan
9.
Anne Gailly
10. Vienna to Beijing: Xu Jinglei’s
Sarah Artt
11. Deconstructing Melodramatic Destiny:
Robert Lang
12. Anticipating Home:
Michael Stewart
13. Framing a Hybrid Tradition: Realism and Melodrama in
Taraneh Dadar
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, American Cinema, Film History, Genre, Media Studies
- Editor
- Stewart, Michael
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 262 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137319852
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-45750-2