Global Melodrama : Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film

Name: Global Melodrama
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781137530615
Price: 13500 KES
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ISBN: 9781137530615

1st ed. 2015

by Carla Marcantonio

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Format Hardback

Book Series Global Cinema

ISBN-10 1137530618

ISBN-13 9781137530615

Edition 1st ed. 2015

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 6th, 2015

Print length 189 Pages

Weight 382 grams

Dimensions 22.50 x 14.80 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Film: styles & genres Film: styles and genres

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Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization.

Melodrama manipulates us to feel deeply about the structures that ground our experience of the world: our bodies, the family, the home, and the nation. For this reason, melodrama is a narrative and aesthetic form employed to sustain the national imagination. Globalization is a phenomenon that has profoundly changed how we live and connect to others, transforming our spatio-temporal parameters. Global Melodrama analyzes the ways in which melodrama addresses this new geopolitical reality and examines how contemporary films ask us to rethink how we organize, and tell stories about, our sense of identity and community. Through case-studies and close readings of films that emerge from different national and aesthetic traditions, Carla Marcantonio demonstrates how global melodramas, far from championing the borderless landscape that the term "global" might index, map new temporal, spatial, and embodied territories.

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