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- Title
'Melodrama of the dear old kind': Sentimentalising British action heroines in the 1910s.
- Authors
Burrows, Jon
- Abstract
This paper pays close attention to the serial and cinematic narratives produced in the British press of the teens in order to display films widening reach as a narrative mode mingling action, sentiment, and gender and to historicize debates about genre in film studies. Many filmmakers, publicists and journalists in the 1910s fully understood that melodrama was a radically hybrid form, yet they did not have the same semantic anxieties about juxtaposing multiple, non-hierarchical definitions of melodrama as later genre historians.
- Subjects
MELODRAMA; WOMEN heroes in motion pictures; WOMEN in literature; WOMEN heroes; MOTION pictures; SENTIMENTALISM in motion pictures; FILMMAKERS; MOTION picture industry; BRITISH in motion pictures
- Publication
Film History, 2006, Vol 18, Issue 2, p163
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/FIL.2006.18.2.163