On ‘Not Being Nothing’: Post-ironic Melodrama in James Gray’s “The Immigrant”
This essay analyzes James Gray’s The Immigrant (2013) discussing it as an instance of post-ironic melodrama (Włodek 2017) aimed at recovering the purity shown by this genre in the early phases of cinematic history. The essay argues that, although the movie pays evident homage to pre-classic silent-e...
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona
2021-06-01
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| Series: | Iperstoria |
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| Online Access: | https://iperstoria.it/article/view/1014 |