{"product_id":"melodrama-unbound-9780231180672","title":"Melodrama Unbound","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama speaks to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo of the most brilliant and lucid writers on film melodrama have put together this wonderful anthology that both consolidates and clarifies thinking about the topic and opens out the field, placing film melodrama more precisely and securely in relation to its theatrical and literary antecedents and extending consideration from well beyond the confines of Europe and North America. A hand-picked roster of contributors confirm the unbounded scope of the collection and demonstrate the importance and range of melodrama and above all the complexity, ideological urgency, and intoxicating pleasures of its emotions. -- Richard Dyer, King’s College London and St. Andrews University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelodrama Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e extends the already robust feminist analysis of melodramatic modes into transmedial, transnational, and philosophical scenes.  It addresses from diverse viewpoints how the emotional encounter with the artwork becomes generally held.  The writing is diverse, vivid, and conceptually challenging in all the best senses. -- Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003eWhat riches the reader will find in this volume! Its vision is rigorously transmedial and transnational. Within this expansive framework, a wide variety of essays “unbind” melodrama from critical misconceptions that have hindered our understanding of its importance, its pervasiveness, and its power as a mode that continues to flourish in a magnificent proliferation of genres, media, art forms, and forms of social expression. -- Carolyn Williams, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings melodrama studies up to date with strongly argued, exciting, original work. It has been many years since melodrama has received such varied and sustained attention in a single volume as we find in \u003ci\u003eMelodrama Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, which changes once again how we understand this protean form. -- Robert Lang, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: The Reach of Melodrama, by Christine Gledhill\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Melodrama’s Crossmedia, Transnational Histories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Unbinding Melodrama, by Matthew Buckley\u003cbr\u003e2. The Passion of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination, by Richard Allen\u003cbr\u003e3. Boucicault in Bombay: Global Theater Circuits and Domestic Melodrama in the Parsi Theater, by Kathryn Hansen\u003cbr\u003e4. Global Melodrama and Transmediality in Turn-of-the-Century Japan, by Hannah Airriess\u003cbr\u003e5. Transnational Melodrama, \u003ci\u003eWenyi\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Orphan Imagination, by Zhen Zhang\u003cbr\u003e6. Performing\/Acting Melodrama, by Helen Day-Mayer and David Mayer\u003cbr\u003e7. Melodrama and the Making of Hollywood, by Hilary A. Hallett\u003cbr\u003e8. Modernizing Melodrama: \u003ci\u003eThe Petrified Forest \u003c\/i\u003eon American Stage and Screen (1935–1936), by Martin Shingler\u003cbr\u003e9. One Suffers but One Learns: Melodrama and the Rules of Lack of Limits, by Carlos Monsiváis (trans. Kathleen M. Vernon)\u003cbr\u003e10. World and Time: Serial Television Melodrama in America, by Linda Williams\u003cbr\u003e11. Melodrama’s “Authenticity” in Carl Th. Dreyer’s \u003ci\u003eLa Passion de Jeanne d’Arc\u003c\/i\u003e, by Amanda Doxtater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Cultural and Aesthetic Debates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12. “Tales of Sound and Fury . . .” or, The Elephant of Melodrama, by Linda Williams\u003cbr\u003e13. Repositioning Excess: Romantic Melodrama’s Journey from Hollywood to China, by Panpan Yang\u003cbr\u003e14. Melodrama and the Aesthetics of Emotion, by E. Deidre Pribram\u003cbr\u003e15. Expressionist Aurality: The Stylized Aesthetic of \u003ci\u003eBhava \u003c\/i\u003ein Indian Melodrama, by Ira Bhaskar\u003cbr\u003e16. The Sorrow and the Piety: Melodrama Rethought in Postwar Italian Cinema, by Louis Bayman\u003cbr\u003e17. Costumes as Melodrama: \u003ci\u003eSuper Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, Male Costume, and the Larger-Than-Life, by Drake Stutesman\u003cbr\u003e18. Melodrama and Apocalypse: Politics and the Melodramatic Mode in \u003ci\u003eContagion\u003c\/i\u003e, by Despina Kakoudaki\u003cbr\u003e19. Even More Tears: The \u003ci\u003eHistorical Time \u003c\/i\u003eTheory of Melodrama, by Jane M. Gaines\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eContributor Biographies\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400313545047,"sku":"9780231180672","price":29.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231180672.jpg?v=1730470362","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/melodrama-unbound-9780231180672","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}