Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film & Television Melodrama

by Marcia Landy

Book Overview

This collection of important essays examines melodrama from a variety of perspectives--chronological, theoretical, international, and feminist.

Marcia Landy has gathered thirty-seven important essays on film and melodrama that have appeared in books and journals over the last two decades. In her introduction to the book, Landy explores the recent interest in the genre in relation to theoretical work in psychoanalysis and semiotics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814320651
• ISBN13: 9780814320655
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"