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  1. Passionate politics
    the cultural work of American melodrama from the early republic to the present
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Pub, Newcastle

    This new collection of essays on American stage and film melodrama assesses the multifarious and contradictory uses to which melodrama has been put in American culture from the late 18th century to the present. It focuses on the various ways in which... more

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    This new collection of essays on American stage and film melodrama assesses the multifarious and contradictory uses to which melodrama has been put in American culture from the late 18th century to the present. It focuses on the various ways in which the

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282193074; 9781282193079; 9781443809535
    Subjects: Melodrama in motion pictures; Melodrama, American
    Scope: Online-Ressource (247 p.), ill
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    Includes bibliographical references

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    TABLE OF CONTENTS; PASSIONATE POLITICS; A WEEP IN THE DARK; PERFORMING HYBRIDITY IN HISTORICAL MELODRAMA OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC; MELODRAMATIC TACTICS AND THE ISSUE OF SLAVERY IN DION BOUCICAULT'S THE OCTOROON; FEASTING ON THE FRUITS OF THE MULBERRY TREE; REALIST MELODRAMA; LOVE, HOME, AND HAPPINESS; MELODRAMA AND THE AMERICAN COMBAT FILM; INTERNAL HYBRIDS; SHATTERING OF UNITY; CONTRIBUTORS