Melodrama and modernity: early sensational cinema and its contexts

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Abstract

Introduction1. Meanings of Modernity2. Meanings of Melodrama3. Sensationalism and the World of Urban Modernity4. Making Sense of the Modernity Thesis5. Melodrama and the Consequences of Capitalism6. Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodrama: Boom and Bust7. Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art!: Early Film Melodrama8. Power and Peril in the Serial-Queen Melodrama9. Marketing Melodrama: Serials and IntertextualityConclusion

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Cinema and Media Studies Asian Culture and Media Studies Theater, Performance, and Music History

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable cities and communities

Publication Details

Published in: Choice Reviews Online

Volume 38, Issue 11, pp. 38-6093

DOI: 10.5860/choice.38-6093

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