...Xiao Liu This essay focuses on the cinematic form of revolutionary melodrama, or, more specifically, on alterations made to family melodrama in the construction of the big socialist family as an imagined social space. Reading Red Detachment of Women (1961) in the tradition of family melodrama...

..., Sandy. “The Blossom and the Bole: Narrative and Visual Spectacle in Early Film Melodrama.” Cinema Journal 33.3 ( 1994 ): 3 –15. Gish, Lillian, with Ann Pinchot. Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me . Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1969 . Henderson, Robert M. D. W. Griffith: His...

... .” 26 . 1 : 26 – 47 . Katz Pamela . “‘ But She’s a Thinker .’” 26 . 2 : 86 – 92 . Kirby Vicki . “ Transgression: Normativity’s Self-Inversion .” 26 . 1 : 96 – 116 . Liu Xiao . “ Red Detachment of Women: Revolutionary Melodrama and Alternative Socialist Imaginations .” 26...

... : Hachette Littérature , 1983 . Berenson Edward . “ The Politics of Divorce in France of the Belle Epoque: The Case of Joseph and Henriette Caillaux .” American Historical Review 93 . 1 ( 1988 ): 31 - 55 . Brooks Peter . The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama...

... and dangerous as it is. Bersani does not use the word comic , but I find the film is a screwball comedy of dark shadows, and we find ourselves theoretically on the same track. His attention amplifies my theoretical understanding of my own response while our enjoyment differs. Screwball and melodrama...

... routinely pathologized and exoticized in the alien and terminator versions of lurid tech-noire Put somewhat differently, accounts of "the question concerning technology" seem indissociable from the melodramas of uncertain motive and agency. As Gilles Deleuze concisely summarizes it: "Types of machines...

... integrity from the realm of business and politics to that of sexual behavior. The hard-boiled novel’s displacement of political ethics to sex- ual morality is also the constitutive feature of the “nationalist melodrama...

... Jenny Kwok Wah . “ Farewell My Concubine: History, Melodrama, and Ideology in Contemporary Pan-Chinese Cinema .” Film Quarterly 49 ( 1995 ): 16 – 27 . Lechner Frank J. “ Cultural Globalization .” Encyclopedia of Globalization . Ed. Robertson Roland Scholte Jan Aart . New...

... forms of state regulation and “protection.” Their potency is in direct proportion to their ability to travel in mediascapes on the profit-generating currencies of scandal, melodrama, and sensationalism. They are routinely understood to be episodic inflammations caused by social transformations...

... as The Greatest Love . But though the film is, among other things, a melodrama, 15 the schmaltzy English-language title says more about the aims of the distributors than the director or the film. In a climactic scene, the protagonist Irene, played by Ingrid Bergman, refuses a man’s idealizing characterization...

... melodrama, Magnificent Obsession, signals its belonging to the corpus of rewritings of the “Beauty and the Beast” scenario, though blindness is centrally thematized. Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson), the male protagonist, is a bored, reckless...

..., and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1984 . Baym Nina . “ Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors .” New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory . Ed. Showalter Elaine . New York...

..., Elizabeth. States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel . New York: Columbia UP, 1997 . Baym, Nina. “Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors.” 1981. Feminism and Literary History: Essays . New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1992 . Berlant...

... paid to The Reckless Moment . Ophuls’s work has been key for the arguments of canonical film theory. For Kaja Silverman, Ophuls stands as a key illustration of suture, while for Mary Ann Doane he offers a self-conscious definition of maternal melodrama. He is also central to her description...

... or the tragedy—anything but the melodrama. If transgender, for Prosser writing in the 1990s, marked the return of what was then queer theory’s repressed—the sexed body that lies beyond the reach of language— today we might say that Jenner marks the return of queer theory’s current disavowed object by bringing...

... for continuing to produce what appeared, for modernists wishing to “make it new,” formally conservative styles, such as melodrama or romance. Claude McKay presents a case in point. The radical content of his poetry, which called for revolu...

..., we are led to speculate, that outsiders cannot grasp—and that may be indeterminate even for insiders. What does it mean to choose money over ideals? Is this melodrama or antimelo-drama? When Nina se retourne , or turns around, turning her back on her father, she looks like she is acting out...

... toward “nature as pure appearance”—which, paradoxically, can only be registered by the film’s withdrawal of any image at all—corresponds to a movement away from knowledge and signification, as well as from psychology and the narrative forms (drama, melodrama, tragedy) that give it expression. Cinema...

..., becomes a vehement opponent of the war once he has died there. In a scene reminiscent of Douglas Sirk’s best melodramas, we see the mourning mother sitting on her sofa in her livingroom, surrounded by her extended family, reading...

... to three decades later and she is found a pauper begging for alms in the city of Rohtak by the author Nizami who crosses into the hermetic universe of the survivors of the catastrophe and sees her fortuitously reunited with her lost son in this post-Siege melodrama. (No one can accuse these “histories...