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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Melodrama"”.
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Maternal Melodrama and Modern Horror: Genre Hybridity in Southern Film
… key elements from the genres of maternal melodrama and modern horror into Southern narratives, Southern maternal horror uses the central ambivalence found in both genres – manifesting as a desire to both return to and escape from one’s maternal origins – to challenge Southern nostalgia. …
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Presenting Korea's Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films
“Presenting Korea’s Past: Melodrama, Spectacle, and Democracy in Post-2000 Historical Films” examines the revival of the cinematic genre of sagŭk in South Korea in the 2000s. The diegesis of sagŭk film portrays premodern dynastic eras of Korea. This project analyzes the evolution of the genre by …
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Two shadows in the moonlight : music in British film melodrama of the 1940s
In this thesis I examine the differences between music in the two cinemas. Concentrating on exemplary films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, I show how the apparent differences are manifested, and by analysing a number of key British films, I illustrate the modes of musical expression used. …
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Family, politics and popular television: an ethnographic study of viewing an Indian serial melodrama
… emergence of this new genre of ‘family serial melodrama’ in light of the commercialisation, fragmentation and diversification of the Indian television marketplace, the thesis outlines public concerns about this generic development, and analyses the textual hybridity of this serial. In the …
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Uno Studio Comparativo della Produzione Artistica tra l'Opera di Pechino e il Melodrama Italiano
Chinese Peking Opera and Italian Melodrama are important treasures in the history of world music, not only witnessing the development of Chinese and European music respectively, but also gradually developing into the most important musical forms in China and Europe, occupying an important position …
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A Raucous Entertainment: Melodrama, Race, and the Search for Moral Legibility in Nineteenth-Century America
… and slavery plays to address nineteenth-century melodrama's fundamental engagement with race. Melodrama is a spectacular form that uses iconic images to move audiences to feel powerful emotions and to assign moral legibility to societal problems. Given the significant role of territorial …
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The Women of the Ten, Twent', Thirt': Popular Melodrama Theatre in Turn-of-the-Century New York
… stock companies, and hundreds of plays, mostly melodramas, written expressly for this movement. Created by enterprising producers, managers, and playwrights, the ten, twent', thirt' catered to the needs of the working-class public who demanded cheap and thrilling entertainment, in the years …
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The Colors of My Skin: The Making of Black German Identity
… In my analysis, I use the analytical term melodrama, or the family melodrama in particular which I define as an expressive mode that looks at how racial tensions are expressed in the domestic space. Family melodrama is also a useful analytic tool as it portrays clear moral categories of …
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La tormenta roja secuencia: el olvido oportuno
… provocar catarsis en el espectador. El género melodrama, a diferencia del anterior, se aprecia de una forma más seria al mostrarnos, en muchos casos, un presente doloroso por causas del destino incierto o por intervención de un villano. El desenlace de este puede dejar grandes enseñanzas en el …
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O elogio da ilusão: Capitu de Luiz Fernando Carvalho
… mesmo que obedeçam sutilmente a regras do melodrama. Com a ficção, o jogo se inverte e é o melodrama que se submete ao real. A minissérie Capitu é um enfrentamento a essa ordem, é um ponto de fuga que valoriza a ilusão em detrimento do parecer ser verdadeiro. O cerne deste estudo é a …
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La riscoperta della poesia antica italiana nei compositori del primo Novecento in Italia. Dalla generazione dell'Ottanta a Luigi Dallapiccola
… strong reaction to Verismo in literature and to Melodrama specifically within the music. One of the first important aspect that we focused on in the present work was the fact that there were composers creating not only pieces made for the theater, but also symphonic and instrumental compositions. …
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Exploding Aliens and Other Offspring
… I grew up in alongside my love for cartoonish melodrama. The collection progresses in order of images and the evolution of such themes as the venture from childhood to adulthood, societal obligations, religion, parenting, death and the hereafter.</p>
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The Plantation Pull: Modernities and Genre in the Anglo-Hispanic-Dutch Caribbean-Atlantic, 1831-1935
… far more. The project utilizes slave narratives, melodrama, fiction, as well as historical data about routes that created plantation cultures and economies worldwide. Chapter one, “Caribbean-Atlantic Routes of Slave Writings: 'Resident / Alien' Circumnavigated” analyzes the psychological and …
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Theatre of community: healing functions of theatre in society
… The second section examines the 19th-century melodrama of the United States of America in order to reveal social psychology and ideology. Melodrama expresses important social knowledge about American ideals and the theatre's ability to solicit empathy from the audience in the form of …
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Comedy on the Borders: Negotiations of *Class Through Parody on the Nineteenth-Century New York Stage
… bard from popular theatre to sacred literature. Melodrama, one of the most prolific genres of the century, was parodied in a wide variety of ways, but a trio of melodrama burlesques offer substantial insight into the contentious process of class ownership and aggression that marked business-class …
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Asserting Identity in Wagner's Shadow: The Case of Engelbert Humperdinck's Königskinder (1897)
… of declamatory notation within the context of melodrama, thus fulfilling Wagnerian ideals as well as progressing beyond them. The effectiveness of Humperdinck's effort is seen in the ensuing critical reception, in which the realities of being heard as a Wagnerian composer are clarified.
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Bitter Relish
… of youth, attraction to immorality, need for melodrama, disinterest when feelings are reciprocated, and the glamour of lust. The protagonists usually become aware of these trivial motivations, usually followed by the collapse of a particular feeling that perhaps never really existed, a take on …
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Street Queens and Clean Teens: Melodramatic Approaches to AIDS in Young Adult Literature and Popular Culture
This research examines melodramatic approaches to AIDS in Young Adult literature and popular culture in the United States from the mid-1980s to the present day: tear-jerking, over-the-top depictions of sexuality, death, and oppression. The YA novel has traditionally been derided as a literary form …
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