“L’OPERA SERIA” ET SES RÉFORMES by Diana TODEA

“… Melodrama or dramma per musica are terms describing the opera genre that was used for more than a century since its appearance. …”
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Documentaire et fiction dans Norteado de Rigoberto Perezcano by Marie-Pierre Ramouche

“…He thus succeeds -- without pathos or melodrama, and with a certain sense of poetry -- in immersing us in the intimate experience of Andrés' journey.…”
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Identidades de género en las Telenovelas Mexicanas: estudio de caso de La Candidata by Anna María Fernández Poncela, Martha Estela Pérez García

“…En este caso, su protagonista Regina Bárcenas, desarrolla un papel apegado a lo que el imaginario social considera que corresponde a las mujeres políticas en la vida real, la mayoría de ellas ejerciendo un rol de madre de la comunidad, dejando en segundo plano el ejercicio y la ambición por el poder. El melodrama La Candidata no constituye una propuesta que rompe con los estereotipos de género, aún mantiene la separación de los ámbitos público-privado y la representación de las mujeres políticas en papeles tradicionales.…”
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Kitsch and Avant-garde Television in Blackpool (Peter Bowker, BBC, 2004) by Nicole Cloarec

“…While mixing generic reference points such as the detective thriller, melodrama and the musical, Blackpool’s most notable achievement is its extensive and highly original use of popular songs. …”
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New Orleans as the city of misfit women in Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) and The Flame of New Orleans (René Clair, 1941) by Taïna TUHKUNEN

“…To what extent the leading lady’s emblematic misconduct ultimately triggers the greatest cataclysm in the South before the Civil War (1861-1865)—the outbreak of yellow fever that devastated New Orleans in the 1850s—remains a question mark at the end of Wyler’s melodrama, leading the spectator to ponder over the connections between the calamitous conduct of the female misfit and the mishaps and calamities befalling upon the in/famous Southern city. …”
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Portrait de l’artiste en jeune femme : Wormwood (1890) de Marie Corelli by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Unlike her famous gothic romances and her melodramas, Marie Corelli’s Wormwood (1890) hinges upon the fin-de-siècle cultural context. …”
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