Refiguring melodrama in film and television : captive affects, elastic sufferings, vicarious objects / Agustín Zarzosa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zarzosa, Agustín, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Melodrama in motion pictures.

Melodrama on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. </sp

Contents:

Introduction: the outwitted critic

Modalities of melodrama

Affect, affection, affectation

Diagnosing suffering

Trafficking in sacred objects

Sacrifice and the animal melodrama

The excesses of the posthuman melodrama

The outside and the coincidence machine

Conclusion: tragedy and melodrama.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

0-7391-7254-9

1-299-14137-4

OCLC:

828423713