Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television - Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects

Informationen zum Autor Agustíin Zarzosa is assistant professor of cinema studies at Purchase College. Klappentext Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects, by Agustín Zarzosa, challenges the long-standing definition of melodrama as a cultural mode that anxiously proclaims the existence of a defunct moral order in a post-sacred world. Arguing that the central concern of melodrama is not morality but suffering, this book offers an alternative conception of melodrama as an apparatus that shapes suffering and redistributes its visibility. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Outwitted CriticChapter 1. Modalities of MelodramaChapter 2. Affect, Affection, AffectationChapter 3. Diagnosing SufferingChapter 4. Trafficking in Sacred ObjectsChapter 5. Sacrifice and the Animal MelodramaChapter 6. The Excesses of the Posthuman MelodramaChapter 7. The Outside and the Coincidence MachineConclusion. Tragedy and Melodrama

Product details

• Authors: Zarzosa, Agust Zarzosa, Agustin Zarzosa, Agustín Zarzosa
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9780739172537
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7253-7
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres