Abstract
Melodrama has long been associated with emotion, frequently in a pejorative sense due to its apparent emotional excesses. Conversely, scholars have argued that the melodramatic mode expresses “forces, desires, fears which... operate in human life," for which we have “no other language” (Gledhill tool, 31,37). In this chapter I explore how emotionality serves melodrama as an alrernarive “language" precisely to express forces, desires, and fears that operate beyond cognitive or ideological explanation.
| Original language | American English |
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| Title of host publication | Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures |
| Editors | Christine Gledhill, Linda Williams |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780231180665 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
Keywords
- melodrama
- emotion
- aesthetics
Disciplines
- Communication
- Film and Media Studies
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
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