1st Edition
Melodrama After the Tears New Perspectives on the Politics of Victimhood
330 Pages
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Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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Melodrama, it is said, has expanded beyond the borders of genre and fiction to become a pervasive cultural mode. It encompasses distinct signifying practices and interpretive codes for meaning-making that help determine the parameters of identification and subject formation. From the public staging of personal suffering or the psychologization of the self in relation to consumer capitalism, to the... Read more
Introduction I. Cultures of Suffering and Cinematic Identities Victimhood and Melodrama: Modern, Political and Militant Thomas Elsaesser When is Melodrama 'Good'? Mega-Melodrama and Victimhood Linda Williams Melodrama and War in Hollywood Genre Cinema Hermann Kappelhoff Race Interactions: Melodrama and the Ambiguities of Colorism Christof Decker The Purloined Letter: Ophuls after Cavell Ulrike Hanstein II. Modernity and the Melodramatic Self The Melodrama of Self Eva Illouz Rousseau's Nightmare Vincent Kaufmann 'Emotional Suffering' as Universal Category? Victimhood and the Collective Imaginary Jorg Metelmann III. Collective Traumas and National Melodramas III.1 Legacies of 9/11 The Abu Ghraib Archive W. J. T. Mitchell, with an introduction by Scott Loren The Melodramatic Style of American Politics Elisabeth Anker Tears of Testimony: Glenn Beck and the Conservative Moral Occult Scott Loren III.2 Holocaust Legacies The Cultural Construction of the Holocaust Witness as a Melodramatic Hero Amos Goldberg Nation and Emotion: The Competition for Victimhood in Europe Ulrich Schmid Perspectives Interview with Christine Gledhill Scott Loren and Jorg Metelmann
Biography
Dr. Scott Loren and Prof. Dr. Jörg Metelmann teach Film and Media Studies at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 2013 they published the monograph Irritation of Life: The Subversive Melodrama of Michael Haneke, David Lynch and Lars von Trier.
