Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures

Book Overview

For too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional crises, either subversively excessive or narrowly focused on the dilemmas of women. Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama is a transgeneric mode...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231180675
• ISBN13: 9780231180672
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.9"