Melodrama as provocateur /
"Centering on a provocative posthumous essay by Linda Williams, "The Fortunes of Melodrama in France and America; or, Why Melodrama is Still Important," Melodrama as Provocateur presents new research and innovative thinking on the past, present, and future of melodrama. Williams'...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Provocations
- The Fortunes of Melodrama in France and America; or, Why Melodrama Is Still Important / Linda Williams
- Refiguring Melodrama's Histories as Transnational/Transmedial Form
- On Shifting Ground: Melodrama's Transcultural, Transmedial, Transhistorical Genesis Matthew Buckley
- Hollywood's Export to the World: Melodramas of Colonial Conquest / Jane Gaines
- Feeling Our Way: Melodrama and Emotional Engagement / Deidre Pribram
- Strip Thinking: Forms of Intermittent Pictorialization / Carolyn Williams
- "And We Wept, Precious": Motion Capture and Melodrama / Carla Marcantonio
- Melodrama's Fortunes in France and America: 18th to 21st Century
- Seeking Sisterhood: French Melodrama, American Cinema, and the Case of Les deux orphelines / Victoria Duckett
- Searching for Melodrama in French vs. American Cinema, 1908-1912 / Richard Abel
- The Lost Word: Le Silence est d'or; or, French (Mis)Recognition of a Mélodrame that Dares not Speak its Name / Charles-Antoine Courcoux
- "Grab Em by the Pussy": Donald Trump and the MAGA Melodrama / Elisabeth R. Anker
- Trans Melodramas / Laura Horak
- Aesthetics and Politics of Emotion
- Falling in Love and in Art: The Diva Documentary / Dolores McElroy
- Melodrama as Default Mode of Popular Culture: P!nk's album Trustfall (2023) / Martin Shingler
- Emotional Legibility: Modernity, Melodrama and Ambivalent Gender Justice in Bombay Cinema, 1930s 1950s / Ira Bhaskar
- From My Sister's Bedside: Life and Death in the Shadow of Blossoms Shanghai.