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American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli

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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 imperatives are often crippling reflections of patriarchy. Revealing how melodrama both submits to patriarchal ideology and confronts it, he believes that we can learn from it either how to be happier on its terms--which are the terms of life in Western society--or how to find our way out of the familial labyrinth.

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791.430 909 355 Lan A

Publisher

New Jersey : Princeton University Press., 1989

Collation

272 hal

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0691006062

Classification

791.430 909 355

Edition

1

Subject(s)

Motion pictures
Melodrama in motion pictures

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