Melodrama and Meaning : History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk

Klinger, Barbara

Indiana University Press（1994/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780253208750
• DDC分類 306.485

基本説明

Re-evaluates this master of the melodrama in the context of U.S. political culture.

Full Description

Melodrama and Meaning is a major addition to the new historical approach to film studies. Barbara Klinger shows how institutions most associated with Hollywood cinema—academia, the film industry, review journalism, star publicity, and the mass media—create meaning and ideological identity for films. Chapters focus on Sirk's place in the development of film studies from the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as the history of the critical reception (both academic and popular) of Sirk's films, a history that outlines journalism's role in public tastemaking. Other chapters are devoted to Universal's selling of Written on the Wind, the machinery of star publicity and the changing image of Rock Hudson, and the contemporary "institutionalized" camp response to Sirk that has resulted from developments in mass culture.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Many Faces of Melodrama
1. The "Progressive" Auteur, Melodrama, and Canonicity
2. Selling Melodrama: Sex, Affluence, and Written on the Wind
3. Tastemaking: Reviews, Popular Canons, and Soap Operas
4. Star Gossip: Rock Hudson and the Burdens of Masculinity
5. Mass Camp and the Old Hollywood Melodrama Today
Conclusion: Cinema, Ideology, History
Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index