Affect, melodrama and cinema : as essay on embodied passivity

Melodrama is a popular mode of address that privileges affect at the expense of reflection and critique. Generally held in disrepute, melodrama's simplicity and sensationalism are widely read as a sign of social and psychological alienation. Melodrama responds to its critics, however, with ever...

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Main Author: Hunting, John.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2006
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100626