Below is a list of useful works on melodrama. They are divided into different sections, though these do of course overlap. It’s a work in progress, so do email me at sp458@kent.ac.uk<\/a> if you have any suggestions as to other references to add.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
| <\/td>\n | GENERAL MELODRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n Single-authored books<\/strong><\/p>\n Barefoot, \u00a0 Guy. Gaslight Melodrama: From\u00a0Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood.<\/em> New York: Continuum, 2001.<\/p>\n Brooks, Peter. The\u00a0\u00a0Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of\u00a0\u00a0Excess<\/em>. Yale University \u00a0 Press, 1995.<\/p>\n Kaplan, \u00a0 E. Ann. Motherhood and Representation:\u00a0the Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama.<\/em> London; New\u00a0York: Routledge, 1992.<\/p>\n Nikolopoulou, Anastasia. Melodrama:\u00a0The Cultural Emergence of a Genre<\/em>. Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Edited books <\/strong><\/p>\n Bratton,\u00a0 Jacky, Jim Cook, Christine Gledhill, eds. Melodrama: Stage, Picture,\u00a0\u00a0 Screen.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0London: British Film Institute, 1994.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n FILM MELODRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n Co-authored books <\/strong><\/p>\n Mercer,\u00a0John and Martin Shingler. Melodrama : Genre, Style, Sensibility<\/em>. London\u00a0; New York : Wallflower, 2004.<\/p>\n Edited books<\/strong><\/p>\n Gledhill,\u00a0Christine, ed. Home is Where the Heart is:\u00a0Studies in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film.<\/em> London: BFI Pub., 1987.<\/p>\n Chapters\/articles<\/strong><\/p>\n “Melodrama.” \u00a0 Film Criticism.<\/i> 9(2). 1984-1985 Winter.<\/p>\n “Melodrama.” \u00a0 Wide Angle<\/i> Vol IV nr 2 (1980); p 4-51.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n HOLLYWOOD MELODRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n Single-authored books<\/strong><\/p>\n Byars,\u00a0\u00a0Jackie. All that Hollywood Allows:\u00a0\u00a0 Re-reading gender in 1950s Melodrama. <\/em>Chapel Hill: University of North \u00a0 Carolina Press, 1991.<\/p>\n Cavell,\u00a0\u00a0Stanley. Contesting Tears: the Hollywood\u00a0\u00a0Melodrama of the Unknown Woman.<\/em> Chicago: University of Chicago \u00a0 Press, 1996.<\/p>\n Doane, \u00a0 Mary Ann. The Desire to Desire : the\u00a0Woman’s Film of the 1940s. <\/em>Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press,\u00a0\u00a01987.<\/p>\n Lang, \u00a0 Robert. American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli. <\/em>Princeton, N.J.: Princeton \u00a0 University Press, 1989.<\/p>\n Singer,\u00a0Ben. Melodrama and Modernity : Early\u00a0Sensational Cinema and its Contexts<\/em>. New York : Columbia University \u00a0 Press, 2001.<\/p>\n Chapters\/articles<\/strong><\/p>\n Cook,\u00a0\u00a0Pam. “Melodrama and the Women’s\u00a0\u00a0Picture.” In: Screening the Past : Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema.\u00a0<\/em>London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.<\/p>\n Kaplan,\u00a0\u00a0E. Ann. “Classical Hollywood Film\u00a0and Melodrama.” In: The Oxford Guide to Film Studies<\/em>,\u00a0edited by\u00a0John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson; pp: 272-82 Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press,\u00a0\u00a01998.<\/p>\n Neale, \u00a0 Stephen. “Melodrama and the Woman’s\u00a0\u00a0Film.” In: Genre and contemporary Hollywood, <\/em>edited by Steve\u00a0\u00a0Neale. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.<\/p>\n Nowell-Smith, \u00a0 G. “Genre Criticism. Minnelli\u00a0and Melodrama.” In: Movies and Methods : an Anthology<\/em>, edited by \u00a0 Bill Nichols. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1976.<\/p>\n Singer, \u00a0 Ben. “Female Power in the\u00a0\u00a0Serial-queen Melodrama : the Etiology of an Anomaly.” In: Silent Film<\/em>,\u00a0edited by Richard Abel. New Brunswick, N.J. : \u00a0 Rutgers University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n Williams, \u00a0 Linda. \u00a0“Melodrama Revised.” \u00a0 In: Refiguring American Film Genres: History and Theory<\/em>, edited by\u00a0Nick Browne.\u00a0Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n BRITISH MELODRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n Edited books<\/strong><\/p>\n Aspinall, Sue, and Robert Murphy, eds. Ga<\/em>insborough Melodrama<\/em>. British\u00a0\u00a0Film Institute, 1983.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n INTERNATIONAL MELODRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n Single-authored books <\/strong><\/p>\n Sadlier, Darlene J., ed. Latin\u00a0\u00a0American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment.<\/em> University of\u00a0Illinois Press, 2009.<\/p>\n Edited books <\/strong><\/p>\n Dissanayake, \u00a0 Wimal, ed. Melodrama and Asian Cinema<\/em>.<\/b> Cambridge ; New York :\u00a0Cambridge University Press, 1993.<\/p>\n McHugh, Kathleen, and Nancy Abelmann, eds. South\u00a0\u00a0Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, and National Cinema<\/em>. <\/b>Wayne State \u00a0 University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n MALE MELODRAMA <\/strong><\/p>\n Chapters\/articles<\/strong><\/p>\n Fuqua, \u00a0 Joy Van. “‘Can You Feel It, Joe?’: \u00a0 Male Melodrama and the Feeling Man.” Velvet Light Trap.<\/i> 38: \u00a0 28-38. 1996 Fall.<\/p>\n Lusted, \u00a0 David. “Social Class and the\u00a0\u00a0Western as Male Melodrama.” In: The Book of Westerns<\/em>,<\/b> edited by \u00a0 Ian Cameron and Douglas Pye. New York: Continuum, 1996.<\/p>\n Lutz, \u00a0 Tom. “Men’s Tears and the Roles\u00a0of Melodrama.” In: Boys Don’t Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of\u00a0\u00a0Masculinity and Emotion in the U.S<\/em>., edited by Milette Shamir and\u00a0\u00a0Jennifer Travis. pp: 185-204. New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n Neale,\u00a0\u00a0Steve. “Melo Talk: on the meaning\u00a0and use of the term ‘melodrama’ in the American trade press.” Velvet\u00a0\u00a0Light Trap<\/i> no. 32 (Fall 1993); p 66-89.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n FILM AND TELEVISION MELODRAMA<\/strong><\/p>\n Edited\u00a0\u00a0books <\/strong><\/p>\n Landy, Marcia, ed.\u00a0<\/em>Imitations of Life: a Reader on\u00a0\u00a0Film & Television Melodrama<\/em>.<\/em> <\/b>Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n Chapters\/articles <\/strong><\/p>\n Gledhill, \u00a0 Christine. “Speculations on the\u00a0\u00a0relationship between soap opera and melodrama.” Quarterly Review of \u00a0 Film and Video <\/i>Vol XIV nr 1-2 (July 1992); p 103-124.<\/p>\n Kuhn, \u00a0 Annette. “Women’s Genres: \u00a0 Melodrama, Soap Opera and Theory.” Screen<\/i>, (1984) 25(1).<\/p>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Below is a list of useful works on melodrama. 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