Posted by Sarah

I thought it would be useful to draw attention to some excellent chapters about film and melodrama by two of the field’s leading writers on the subject.

These are:

Christine Gledhill’s  “Rethinking Genre” in Linda Williams and Christine Gledhill, eds, Reinventing Film Studies. Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2000: 42-88.

and

Linda Williams’ “Melodrama Revised” in Nick Browne, ed, Refiguring American Film Genres: History and Theory, University of California Pr, 1998: 42-88.

Please go to http://melodramaresearchgroupextra.wordpress.com/ for more details.

I’m sure you’ll find it interesting to (re)read them. As always, do log in to comment or email me on sp458@kent.ac.uk