Author: Ben Singer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231505079
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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 sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.
Melodrama and Modernity
Author: Ben Singer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231505079
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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 sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231505079
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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 sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Theatre Research
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Educational Theatre Journal
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Supplements issued for and bound with some vols.
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Supplements issued for and bound with some vols.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Vols. for 1973- include the following subject areas: Biological sciences, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Earth sciences, Physics, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law & political science, Business & economics, Geography & regional planning, Language & literature, Fine arts, Library & information science, Mass communications, Music, Philosophy and Religion.
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Vols. for 1973- include the following subject areas: Biological sciences, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Earth sciences, Physics, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law & political science, Business & economics, Geography & regional planning, Language & literature, Fine arts, Library & information science, Mass communications, Music, Philosophy and Religion.
Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Annual Commencement
Author: Stanford University
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
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Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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