Melodrama and modernity
early sensational cinema and its contexts
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Author
Publication
2001 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
90,750 words, Guess
Page Count
363 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6795068M
- ISBN-100231113285
- OCLC Control Number45094006
- OCLC Control Number51851900
- OCLC Control Numbermelodramamoderni00sing
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number00064547
- Goodreads5672265
- LibraryThing434126
Classifications
- DDC791.43/653
- LCCPN1995.9.M45 S56 2001
Description
In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g. The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory. -- from back cover.
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Series Statement
- Film and culture
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