Jonathan Goldberg

Melodrama (Theory Q)

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ISBN 13:
9780822361916
author:
Jonathan Goldberg
format:
Paperback
publisher:
Duke University Press Books
language:
English
Publication Year:
2016
Pages:
216
Dimensions:
14.7 x 1.3 x 22.6 cm
Genre:
Society, Politics & Philosophy, Social Sciences, Communication Studies, Jonathan Goldberg,Melodrama (Theory Q),Duke University Press Books,0822361914,Film, TV & Radio,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Melodrama - History and critic
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Jonathan Goldberg's Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility explores the ways in which melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focusing on the concept of the "impossible situation" in melodrama, Goldberg examines films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to this idea. Goldberg's analysis delves into the original definition of melodrama as a form combining music and drama, tracing its use in Beethoven's opera Fidelio, Alfred Hitchcock's films, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith. He argues that music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed social norms. The interaction between musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making it resistant to normative forms of value. This resistance makes melodrama a powerful tool for creating new potentials.

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