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Melodrama and Meaning : History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk by Barbara Klinger (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Number of Pages: 224. Weight: 0.73 lbs. Publication Date: 1994-08-22. Publisher: INDIANA UNIV PR.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253208750
ISBN-139780253208750
eBay Product ID (ePID)55150
Product Key Features
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMelodrama and Meaning : History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk
Publication Year1994
SubjectFilm / General, General, Film / History & Criticism
TypeTextbook
AuthorBarbara Klinger
Subject AreaDrama, Performing Arts
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight12.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN93-027574
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal791.43/0233/092
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: The Many Faces of Melodrama 1. The "Progressive" Auteur, Melodrama, and Canonicity 2. Selling Melodrama: Sex, Affluence, and Written on the Wind 3. Tastemaking: Reviews, Popular Canons, and Soap Operas 4. Star Gossip: Rock Hudson and the Burdens of Masculinity 5. Mass Camp and the Old Hollywood Melodrama Today Conclusion: Cinema, Ideology, History Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
SynopsisOther chapters are devoted to Universal's selling of Written on the Wind, the machinery of star publicity and the changing image of Rock Hudson, and the contemporary "institutionalizedcamp response to Sirk that has resulted from developments in mass culture., Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema--academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass media--create meaning and ideological identity for films. Chapters focus on Sirk's place in the development of film studies from the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as the history of the critical reception (both academic and popular) of Sirk's films, a history that outlines journalism's role in public tastemaking. Other chapters are devoted to Universal's selling of Written on the Wind, the machinery of star publicity and the changing image of Rock Hudson, and the contemporary "institutionalized" camp response to Sirk that has resulted from developments in mass culture.
LC Classification NumberPN1998.3.S57.K55
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