... Federacio (KAPF), most notably Kim Kijin, insisted that melodrama—a narrative form widely distributed in popular newspapers—could circumvent censorship to introduce revolutionary representations to the public. Although few proletarian authors initially agreed with Kim’s approach, many proletarian novels...

... of the actors purportedly had on Japanese film. It was widely assumed among these critics that oyama , particularly the popular actor Tachibana Teijirô, served as the focal point for a community of female moviegoers who took excessive pleasure in the sentimental melodramas that were the specialty...

...Gerald Sim Situated astride Malaysian and global film culture, the late director Yasmin Ahmad presents a fresh model of postcolonial poetics. Her films gravitated toward interracial romance melodramas set in globalized social and cultural milieus, where she stages interethnic squabbles between...

... to (and in some cases found creativity through) their constraints. The first set tracks developments in the twentieth century in rough chronological order from the rise of Korean proletarian melodrama amid Japanese colonial censorship in the 1920s – 30s to the commercial growth of Japanese literature in English...

... their parochialism and nationhood. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 adaptation Cantonese cinema cosmopolitanism literary classics melodrama Cosmopolitanism promises to go beyond national thinking and tradition-bound parochialism by reemphasizing...

... Press . Bhattacharya Nabarun . 2010 . Upanayas samagra (Collected Novels) . Kolkata : Dey's . Brooks Peter . 1994 . “Melodrama, Body, Revolution.” In Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen , edited by Bratton J. S. Cook J. Gledill C. , 11 – 24 . London : British...

... provided the impetus for the United States and Japan to reconfigure their collective memories. At the end of the war, the United States and Japan cast themselves in a melodrama, so to speak, with the demonstration of the atomic bomb’s...

.... The conflict between realism and melodrama, often performatively staged in cinema, is also a conflict over the mode of imagining spaces as bound and unbound. Film cultures — as in the diverse case of India, where the melodramatic, a dynamic of excess...

.... Daning: Money can be earned back. But we have only one life. Lan Yu understands that. Melodramas of Neoliberalism Why, then, must Lan Yu die? Why must he pass on just at the point of emotional resolution, when...

... , and Sister Carrie , Ng shows how the Cantonese Union Film Enterprise strategically used Hong Kong's embattled position at the intersection of Cold War blocs to fuse inspirations from May Fourth literature critical of feudal family relations with Hollywood melodrama in favor of individual love and freedom...

... professor at the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. His academic research has focused on melodrama, Bengali cinema, exploitation genres, and alternative film cultures in India. His articles have appeared in Journal...

...). In these ways, Yoshiya and the photographers bring together the genres of popular fiction and cinematic melodrama. Not surprisingly, other major writers of domestic melodrama and popular serialized fiction also wrote or were adapted to shashin shsetsu...

...). For a general study of melodrama, see Peter Brooks, The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976). See also Nick Brown, “Society, and Subjectivity...

... writer Huang Ch’un-ming,10 the film exhibits a cautiously orchestrated, symbiotic mixture ofthe popular genre codes ofcomedy and melodrama with psychological and political themes, vying for the potential of cinema that can enmesh entertainment, art...

..., and Minority in Late Colonial India.” In Community, Gender, and Violence: Subaltern Studies XI , edited by Chatterjee Partha Jeganathan Pradeep , 1 – 36 . New York : Columbia University Press . Mulvey Laura . 1987 . “Notes on Sirk and Melodrama.” In Home Is Where the Heart...

... Philippine cinema can be manifested through a comparison of the recent engagements of these groups. Mainstream lm studios worked on high- budget local comedies, primarily through campy women characters, and melodramas through overseas contract...

... Protestant missionaries in Korea. Much has been written about various colonial modernities where white men suffer wasting tropicalities. Suicide William McKenzie, a Cana- dian evangelist whose self- hagiographic melodrama Kramer recounts, was made not a sinner but a fallen martyr, driven to his early death...

...), capable of making the young girls of the world cry (Kanayama 1964: 50). In her article Signs of Melodrama, Christine Gledhill (1991) enjoins positions 28:4 November 2020 738 us to reconsider the more negative connotations of melodramatic aesthet- ics. According to Gledhill, realist...

... in Malayalam cinema through the 1980s is, in fact, melodrama that is framed by the literary realism of Malayalam fiction — especially that of modernist fiction, and the exposure to world cinema.19 While successfully fashioning...

... and state-­sanctioned labor exportation shall continue into the future. In doing so, these ostensibly romantic melodramas manifest the contradictions of international relations, the aporias of identity, and the affiliations of citizen- ship...