Melodrama: Genre, Style, Sensibility

by John Mercer and Martin Shingler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904764029
• ISBN13: 9781904764021
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 7.9"