Resumen
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.
| Idioma original | American English |
|---|---|
| Título de la publicación alojada | Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures |
| Editores | Christine Gledhill, Linda Williams |
| Editorial | Columbia University Press |
| ISBN (versión impresa) | 9780231180665 |
| Estado | Published - ene 1 2018 |
Disciplines
- Communication
- Film and Media Studies
- Social and Behavioral Sciences
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