Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its ContextsColumbia University Press, 5 feb 2001 - 256 páginas Looking back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.), Singer uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. |
Índice
Meanings of Modernity | 17 |
Meanings of Melodrama | 37 |
Sensationalism and the World of Urban Modernity | 59 |
Making Sense of the Modernity Thesis | 101 |
Melodrama and the Consequences of Capitalism | 131 |
Boom and Bust | 149 |
Early Film Melodrama | 189 |
Power and Peril in the SerialQueen Melodrama | 221 |
Serials and Intertextuality | 263 |
Conclusion | 289 |
Bibliography | 331 |
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