[E-BOOK] American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli
☆ Robert Lang ☆
| #5393470 in Books | Princeton Univ Pr | 1989-04-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.50 x.75l, | File Name: 0691047596 | 272 pages |
||0 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The object of its own description.|By Samuel C.|Much work remains to be done to rescue from academic dismissal on the grounds that it is "melodramatic" not just a significant body of film but of literature and music as well. But the author of this book-polemic ignores the aesthetic while politicizing the theoretical. His representation of gender roles in the "world at large,
"The difficulty for men or the impossibility for women of living up to patriarchal society's ideal order is the very stuff of melodrama," writes Robert Lang in this daring work on what the author sees as the central genre of American film. 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 crippl...
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