libro

American film melodrama : Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli
Lang, Robert (1957 - )
Título: American film melodrama : Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli

Autor(es): Robert Lang

Publicación: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c 1989

Descripción: XI, 258 p.

Idioma: Inglés

Formato: Impreso

Resumen: "The difficulty for men or the impossibility for women of living up to patriarchal society's ideal order is the very stuff of melodrama," writes Robert Lang in this daring work on what the author sees as the central genre of American film. Lang contends that the true melodrama is essentially an Oedipal drama--a dramatization of the ways in which we are all formed within a matrix of familial imperatives. As he interprets them, these imperatives are often crippling reflections of patriarchy. Revealing how melodrama both submits to patriarchal ideology and confronts it, he believes that we can learn from it either how to be happier on its terms--which are the terms of life in Western society--or how to find our way out of the familial labyrinth.

Ubicación: 649 - L

Descriptor(es)
1. CINE NORTEAMERICANO - HISTORIA Y CRITICA
2. MELODRAMA
3. GRIFFITH, D.W., 1875-1948 - CRITICA E INTERPRETACION
4. VIDOR, KING, 1894-1982 - CRITICA E INTERPRETACION
5. MINNELLI, VICENTE, 1903-1986 - CRITICA E INTERPRETACION