Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- I Introduction
- II Melodrama / subjectivity / ideology: Western melodrama theories and their relevance to recent Chinese cinema
- III Symbolic representation and symbolic violence: Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980s
- IV The Goddess: Reflections on melodrama East and West
- V Melodrama as historical understanding: The making and unmaking of communist history
- VI Melodrama, postmodernism, and Japanese cinema
- VII Inscribing the subject: The melodramatization of gender in An Actor's Revenge
- VIII Insides and outsides: Cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama
- IX Psyches, ideologies, and melodrama: The United States and Japan
- X Negotiating the transition to capitalism: The case of Andaz
- XI The concepts of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: An evolving dialectic
- XII Politics of melodrama in Indonesian cinema
- XIII Power, pleasure, and desire: The female body in Filipino melodrama
- XIV The register of nightmare: Melodrama as it (dis)appears in Australian film
- XV Overview: What is American about film study in America?
- Index
List of contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- I Introduction
- II Melodrama / subjectivity / ideology: Western melodrama theories and their relevance to recent Chinese cinema
- III Symbolic representation and symbolic violence: Chinese family melodrama of the early 1980s
- IV The Goddess: Reflections on melodrama East and West
- V Melodrama as historical understanding: The making and unmaking of communist history
- VI Melodrama, postmodernism, and Japanese cinema
- VII Inscribing the subject: The melodramatization of gender in An Actor's Revenge
- VIII Insides and outsides: Cross-cultural criticism and Japanese film melodrama
- IX Psyches, ideologies, and melodrama: The United States and Japan
- X Negotiating the transition to capitalism: The case of Andaz
- XI The concepts of evil and social order in Indian melodrama: An evolving dialectic
- XII Politics of melodrama in Indonesian cinema
- XIII Power, pleasure, and desire: The female body in Filipino melodrama
- XIV The register of nightmare: Melodrama as it (dis)appears in Australian film
- XV Overview: What is American about film study in America?
- Index
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- Melodrama and Asian Cinema , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993