The Melodrama.pptx

The Melodrama Notes taken from Genre and Hollywood (2000) by Steve Neale Melodrama—the Woman’s film Melodramas are identified by their heightened emotionalism and sentimentality. Steve Neale quotes Thomas Elaesser as suggesting that the melodrama is a “dramatic narrative in which musical accompan...

The Melodrama Notes taken from Genre and Hollywood (2000) by Steve Neale Melodrama—the Woman’s film Melodramas are identified by their heightened emotionalism and sentimentality. Steve Neale quotes Thomas Elaesser as suggesting that the melodrama is a “dramatic narrative in which musical accompaniment marks the emotional effects” (183). Neale also says melodrama is one of the “few generic areas in Hollywood in which masculinity in general, and ‘virile’ masculinity in particular, has been consistently qualified, questioned, impaired, or castrated—unable to realize or express itself in action” (186). Melodramas entail the domestic—within the home.