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Melodrama : genre, style, sensibility

Paperback • 2004 • Norwegian Bokmål

Melodrama : genre, style, sensibility

By John Mercer

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About the book

Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility is designed as an accessible overview of one of the most popular genres at undergraduate Film Studies. The book identifies three distinct but connected concepts through which it is possible to make sense of melodrama; either as a genre, originating in European theatre of the 18th and 19th century, as a specific cinematic style, epitomised by the work of Douglas Sirk or as a sensibility that emerges in the context of specific texts, speaking to and reflecti...Show more

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ISBN

9781904764021

Publisher

London : Wallflower

Published year

2004

Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Original title

Melodrama : genre, style, sensibility

Format

Paperback

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