Melodrama Unbound: Across History, Media, and National Cultures (Film and Culture Series)

by Christine Gledhill (Author), Christine Gledhill (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2018

  $119.53

  Drawing on new scholarship in transnational theatrical, film, and cultural histories, this collection demonstrates that melodrama speaks to fundamental aspects of modern life and feeling. Contributors articulate new ways of thinking about melodrama that underscore its pervasiveness across national cultures and in a variety of genres.