This new go-to reference book for global melodrama assembles contributions by experts from a wide range of disciplines, including cultural studies, film and media studies, gender and queer studies, political science, and postcolonial studies. The melodramas covered in this volume range from early 20th century silent movies to contemporary films, from independent ›arthouse‹ productions to Hollywood blockbusters. The comprehensive overview of global melodramatic film in the Lexicon constitutes a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of film, teachers, film critics, and anyone who is interested in the past and present of melodramatic film on a global scale. The Lexicon of Global Melodrama includes essays on All That Heaven Allows, Bombay, Casablanca, Die Büchse der Pandora, In the Mood for Love, Nosotros los Pobres, Terra Sonâmbula, and Tokyo Story.
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Introduction; A Drunkard's Reformation (1909); Tom Gunning; Blind Husbands (1919); Applause (1929); Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora, 1929); The Blue Angel (Der blaue Engel, 1930); Ganga Bruta (1933); Masquerade in Vienna (Maskerade, 1934); Modern Times (1936); Bewitching Kisses (Besos brujos, 1937); Heimat (1938); Gone with the Wind (1939); Casablanca (1942); Mashenka (Машенька, 1942); Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945); Nosotros los pobres (1948); Chains (Catene, 1949); Tokyo Story (東京物語, Tōkyō Monogatari, 1953); House of Ricordi (Casa Ricordi, 1954); The Night of the Hunter (1955); All that Heaven Allows (1955); The Word (Ordet, 1955); Violent Playground (1958); Hiroshima mon amour (1959); Imitation of Life (1959); Oyster Girl (蚵女,Ke nü, 1963); A Patch of Blue (1965); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Dark of the Sun (1968); Love Story (1970); The Legend of the Red Lantern (红灯记, Hongdeng ji, 1970); Ariana (אריאנה, 1971); Insiang (1976); Amar Akbar Anthony (1977); The Smoking Fish (El pez que fuma, 1977); An Unmarried Woman (1978); The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979); Ticket of No Return (Bildnis einer Trinkerin, 1979); Babylon (1980); Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press (Dorian Gray im Spiegel der Boulevardpresse, 1984); The Official Story (La historia oficial, 1985); Where Is the Friend's House? (Khane-ye doust kodjast, 1987); Little Vera (Маленькая Вера, Malen'kaia Vera, 1988); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, 1988); Coming Out (1989); Living in Bondage, Part I (1992) and II (1993); Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Bawang bie ji, 1993); The Piano (1993); In the Heat of the Sun (陽光燦爛的日子, Yángguāng Cánlán De Rìzi, 1994); Bombay (1995); The Bridges of Madison County (1995); Kikujiro (菊次郎の夏, Kikujirō no natsu, 1999); Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, 2000); Erin Brockovich (2000); In the Mood for Love (花樣年華, Fa yeung nin wa, 2000); Moulin Rouge! (2001); Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, 2001); Devdas ( 2002); Destiny Has No Favorites (El destino no tiene favoritos, 2003); Monsieur Ibrahim (Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, 2003); Osuofia in London, Part I (2003) and II (2004); Brokeback Mountain (2005); Rang De Basanti ( 2006); The Yacoubian Building ('Imārat Ya'qūbīān, 2006); Lust, Caution (色, 戒, Sè, Jiè, 2007); Shanghai Baby (2007); Sleepwalking Land (Terra Sonâmbula, 2007); The Blind Side (2009); Invictus (2009); The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos, 2009); Jaffa ( כלת הים , Kalat Hayam, 2009); Pumzi (2009); Anchor Baby (2010); Even the Rain (También la Iluvia, 2010); Melancholia (2011); Laurence Anyways (2012); The Cut (2014); The Theory of Everything (2014); Eye in the Sky (2015); Masaan (2015); The Salesman (Forushandeh, 2016); Jackie (2016); The Nest of the Turtledove (Гніздо горлиці, Hnizdo horlytsi, 2016); Cold War (Zimna wojna, 2018); Mirja Lecke; Elevator Baby (2019); The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (A vida invisível, 2019); Joker (2019); Hamilton (2020); No Hard Feelings/FUTUR DREI (2020); Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors.
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»Ein beeindruckendes Lexikon.« Hans Helmut Prinzler, www.hhprinzler.de, 26.05.2022
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9783837659733
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2022-05-27
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Transcript Verlag
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23 mm
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15 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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400

Biographical note

Heike Paul is chair of American studies and speaker of the DFG Research Training Group 2726 »The Sentimental in Literature, Culture and Politics« at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Sarah Marak is a doctoral research in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Katharina Gerund (Dr. phil.) teaches American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her research interests include transatlantic cultural mobility, popular culture as well as gender and critical race studies. Current projects focus on the U.S. re-education policies of the postwar years and the figure of the military spouse in the cultural imaginary of the U.S.. Marius Henderson (M.A.) is a postdoctoral researcher in American studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interests include critical theory (especially affect and Afro-diasporic theory), North American poetry, and gender studies. His current research project investigates the relation between dynamics of abstraction and abjection in the context of North American modernisms.