Melodrama after the tears : new perspectives on the politics of victimhood

Melodrama after the tears : new perspectives on the politics of victimhood /

Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification and subject formation. From the public staging...

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Other Authors: Loren, Scott (Editor), Metelmann, Jörg (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
Series:Film culture in transition.
Subjects:
Melodrama in motion pictures.
Melodrama > History and criticism.
Film theory and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
ART > General.
Melodrama
Melodrama in motion pictures
Melodrama > Film
Opfer > Religion, Motiv
Melodrama, Victimhood, Cultural Studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Loren, Scott / Metelmann, Jörg
  • I. Cultures of Suffering and Cinematic Identities
  • Melodrama and Victimhood: Modern, Political and Militant / Elsaesser, Thomas
  • When Is Melodrama "Good"? Mega-Melodrama and Victimhood / Williams, Linda
  • Melodrama and War in Hollywood Genre Cinema / Kappelhoff, Hermann
  • Race Interactions: Film, Melodrama, and the Ambiguities of Colorism / Decker, Christof
  • The Purloined Letter: Ophuls after Cavell / Hanstein, Ulrike
  • II. Modernity and the Melodramatic Self
  • The Melodrama of the Self / Illouz, Eva
  • Rousseau's Nightmare / Kaufmann, Vincent
  • "Emotional Suffering" as Universal Category? Victimhood and the Collective Imaginary / Metelmann, Jörg
  • III. Collective Traumas and National Melodramas
  • III.1 Legacies of 9/11
  • Introduction to W. J. T. Mitchell, "The Abu Ghraib Archive" / Loren, Scott
  • The Abu Ghraib Archive / Mitchell, W. J. T.
  • The Melodramatic Style of American Politics / Anker, Elisabeth
  • Tears of Testimony: Glenn Beck and the Conservative Moral Occult / Loren, Scott
  • III.2 Holocaust Legacies
  • The Cultural Construction of the Holocaust Witness as a Melodramatic Hero / Goldberg, Amos
  • Nation and Emotion: The Competition for Victimhood in Europe / Schmid, Ulrich
  • Perspectives
  • Interview with Christine Gledhill / Loren, Scott / Metelmann, Jörg
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Film Titles
  • Index of Names
  • Film Culture in Transition

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