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Melodrama After the Tears: New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood (Film Culture in Transition)
Jörg Metelmann (Ed.)
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Metelmann, J.; Loren, Scott. Series: Film Culture in Transition. Num Pages: 360 pages, 22 black and white; 0 full color. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 of personal suffering or the psychologization of the self in relation to consumer capitalism, to the emotionalization and sentimentalization of national politics, contributions to this volume address the following question: If melodramatic models of sense-making have become so culturally pervasive and emotionally persuasive, what is the political potential of melodramatic victimhood and where are its political limitations? ... Read more
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 of personal suffering or the psychologization of the self in relation to consumer capitalism, to the emotionalization and sentimentalization of national politics, contributions to this volume address the following question: If melodramatic models of sense-making have become so culturally pervasive and emotionally persuasive, what is the political potential of melodramatic victimhood and where are its political limitations? ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Condition
New
Series
Film Culture in Transition
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089646736
SKU
V9789089646736
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About Jörg Metelmann (Ed.)
Dr. Scott Loren and Prof. Dr. Jörg Metelmann teach Film and Media Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2013 they published the monograph Irritation of Life: The Subversive Melodrama of Michael Haneke, David Lynch and Lars von Trier Dr. Scott Loren and Prof. Dr. Jörg Metelmann teach Film and Media ... Read more
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