Melodrama after the tears new perspectives on the politics of victimhood - Loren, Scott 1971-; Metelmann, Jörg 1970- (Amsterdam University Press, 2016)
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Cultures of Suffering and Cinematic Identities -- Melodrama and Victimhood: Modern, Political and Militant / Thomas Elsaesser -- When Is Melodrama "Good"? Mega-Melodrama and Victimhood / Linda Williams -- Melodrama and War in Hollywood Genre Cinema / Hermann Kappelhoff -- Race Interactions: Film, Melodrama, and the Ambiguities of Colorism / Christof Decker -- The Purloined Letter: Ophuls after Cavell / Ulrike Hanstein -- Modernity and the Melodramatic Self -- The Melodrama of the Self / Eva Illouz -- Rousseau's Nightmare / Vincent Kaufmann -- "Emotional Suffering" as Universal Category? Victimhood and the Collective Imaginary / Jörg Metelmann -- Collective Traumas and National Melodramas -- Legacies of 9/11 -- Introduction to W.J. T. Mitchell, "The Abu Ghraib Archive" / Scott Loren -- The Abu Ghraib Archive / W.J.T. Mitchell -- The Melodramatic Style of American Politics / Elisabeth Anker -- Tears of Testimony: Glenn Beck and the Conservative Moral Occult / Scott Loren -- Holocaust Legacies -- The Cultural Construction of the Holocaust Witness as a Melodramatic Hero / Amos Goldberg -- Nation and Emotion: The Competition for Victimhood in Europe / Ulrich Schmid