Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen

by JimCook (Editor), Christine Gledhill (Editor), J.S.Bratton (Editor)

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  1994

  $4.33

  Drawn from papers presented at the 1992 international conference of the same name, held in London, this book offers a state-of-the-art survey of melodrama studies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines, including film theory, history, theatre studies and musicology, address the problems raised by the concept and the genre of melodrama, a popular dramatic fiction which spans Victorian and contemporary entertainment.