| #583482 in Books | Ben Singer | 2001-01-15 | 2001-02-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x.87 x7.00l,1.42 | File Name: 0231113293 | 256 pages | Melodrama and Modernity Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts
||8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Readable introduction|By Samuel C.|This study has many of the earmarks of a Ph. D. dissertation--muted claims and qualifiers, allusions to the Frankfort School, periodic summaries--but it's a lucid, jargon-free beginning of a conversation that's long overdue. Many great American texts (literary as well as cinematic) have been excluded from academic canons and college reading||A remarkably readable work on the contextual relationship of modernity to stage and screen melodramas in the early 20th century.... He accompanies his text with one of the best and most unusual selections of illustrated materials this reviewer has ever seen..
In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensor...
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