{"product_id":"melodrama-unbound-christine-gledhill-9780231180672","title":"Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor too long melodrama has been associated with outdated and morally simplistic stereotypes of the Victorian stage; for too long film studies has construed it as a singular domestic genre of familial and emotional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 that has long spoken to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePointing to melodrama's roots in the ancient Greek combination of melos and drama, and to medieval Christian iconography focused on the pathos of Christ as suffering human body, the volume highlights the importance to modernity of melodrama as a \u003ci\u003emode\u003c\/i\u003e of emotional dramaturgy, the social and aesthetic conditions for which emerged long before the French Revolution. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres. They examine how melodrama has traveled to and been transformed in India, China, Japan, and South America, whether through colonial circuits or later, globalization; how melodrama mixes with other modes such as romance, comedy, and realism; and finally how melodrama has modernized the dramatic functions of gender, class, and race by orchestrating vital aesthetic and emotional experiences for diverse audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Gledhill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231180675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231180672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 7.00w x 1.10d","brand":"Christine Gledhill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981519618303,"sku":"9780231180672","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc5fb697-08e1-401c-8e40-a84ef1b41394.jpg?v=1683256061","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/melodrama-unbound-christine-gledhill-9780231180672","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}