| Description |
xiv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Film and culture
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Film and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-355) and index. |
| Contents |
Meanings of Modernity -- Meanings of Melodrama -- Sensationalism and the World of Urban Modernity -- Making Sense of the Modernity Thesis -- Melodrama and the Consequences of Capitalism -- Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodrama: Boom and Bust -- "Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art!": Early Film Melodrama -- Power and Peril in the Serial-Queen Melodrama -- Marketing Melodrama: Serials and Intertextuality. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Melodrama in motion pictures.
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Melodrama in motion pictures. |
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Melodrama. |
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Motion pictures. |
| ISBN |
0231113285 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780231113281 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231113293 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780231113298 paperback alkaline paper |
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