American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli

Edition

1st editio

ISBN/ISSN

978-0691047591

Collation

258 hlm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

791.430 909 355 Lan A

American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli

Lang contends that the true melodrama is essentially an Oedipal drama--a dramatization of the ways in which we are all formed within a matrix of familial imperatives. As he interprets them, these i…