American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli

by Robert Lang

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"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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691006067

ISBN13:9780691006062

Release Date:March 1989

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

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