Refiguring melodrama in film and television :: captive affects, elastic sufferings, vicarious objects /

Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects, by Agustín Zarzosa, challenges the long-standing definition of melodrama as a cultural mode that anxiously proclaims the existence of a defunct moral order in a post-sacred world. Arguing that the c...

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Main Author: Zarzosa, Agustín, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2013.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects, by Agustín Zarzosa, challenges the long-standing definition of melodrama as a cultural mode that anxiously proclaims the existence of a defunct moral order in a post-sacred world. Arguing that the central concern of melodrama is not morality but suffering, this book offers an alternative conception of melodrama as an apparatus that shapes suffering and redistributes its visibility.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 173 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-164) and index.
ISBN:9780739172544
0739172549
1299141374
9781299141377

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