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American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli
American Film Melodrama Griffith Vidor Minnelli
Author: Robert Lang
"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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691047591
ISBN-10: 0691047596
Publication Date: 4/1989
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
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