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Yes, you can access Melodrama After the Tears by Jörg Metelmann,Scott Loren, Jörg Metelmann, Scott Loren in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Film & Video. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Year

2016

eBook ISBN

9789048523573

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Topic

Media & Performing Arts

Subtopic

Film & Video

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
I. Cultures of Suffering and Cinematic Identities
Melodrama and Victimhood: Modern, Political and Militant
When Is Melodrama “Good”? Mega‑Melodrama and Victimhood
Melodrama and War in Hollywood Genre Cinema
Race Interactions: Film, Melodrama, and the Ambiguities of Colorism
The Purloined Letter: Ophuls after Cavell
II. Modernity and the Melodramatic Self
The Melodrama of the Self
Rousseau’s Nightmare
“Emotional Suffering” as Universal Category? Victimhood and the Collective Imaginary
III. Collective Traumas and National Melodramas
III.1 Legacies of 9/11
Introduction to W. J. T. Mitchell, “The Abu Ghraib Archive”
The Abu Ghraib Archive
The Melodramatic Style of American Politics
Tears of Testimony: Glenn Beck and the Conservative Moral Occult
III.2 Holocaust Legacies
The Cultural Construction of the Holocaust Witness as a Melodramatic Hero
Nation and Emotion: The Competition for Victimhood in Europe
Perspectives
Interview with Christine Gledhill
Bibliography
Index of Film Titles
Index of Names
Film Culture in Transition

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