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- Title
Sri Lankan family melodrama: a cinema of primitive attractions.
- Authors
Jayamanne, Laleen
- Abstract
The article examines the Sri Lankan family melodrama film concept. Though the country's genre film always tells a story, its great investment in the act of staging picturesque tableaux and trick effects makes it impervious to value judgements based on taste and/or nationalistic rhetoric. The formula film can be divided into narrative operations, which is characterized by prodigality, arbitrary rupture of continuity and causality, and scenic operations which was developed by silent cinema historian Tom Gunning.
- Subjects
SRI Lanka; MELODRAMA in motion pictures; GUNNING, Tom; FILM genres; TABLEAUX (Art); RHETORIC
- Publication
Screen, 1992, Vol 33, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0036-9543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/screen/33.2.145