Living Screens
Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television
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2015
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-047-0 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78348-047-0 (ISBN)
Through original analysis of three digital-age, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Todd Haynes’s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens explores the “plasticity” of our current situation in which we live with screens that melodramatically touch our lives.
Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Todd Haynes’s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s foundational, Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a “plastic” form with the capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental processes of mediation.
Living Screens evokes the thrills, anxieties, and uncertainties accompanying our attachment to technologies that are close-at-hand yet have far-reaching effects. In doing so, it explores the plasticity of our current situation, in which we live with screens that melodramatically touch our lives.
Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Todd Haynes’s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and renovates the terms in which melodrama has been understood. Returning to Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s foundational, Enlightenment-era melodrama Pygmalion with its revival of an old story about sculpted objects that spring to life, it contends that this early production prefigures the structure of contemporary melodramas and serves as a model for the way we interact with media today. Melodrama is conceptualized as a “plastic” form with the capacity to mould and be moulded and that speaks to fundamental processes of mediation.
Living Screens evokes the thrills, anxieties, and uncertainties accompanying our attachment to technologies that are close-at-hand yet have far-reaching effects. In doing so, it explores the plasticity of our current situation, in which we live with screens that melodramatically touch our lives.
Monique Rooney is a lecturer in the English Program, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University.
Acknowledgments / Chapter 1: Living Screens: Introduction / 2. Mad Men (2007-2015): Melodrama and Metamorphosis / 3. Turned Back: Advertising, Televisual Melodrama and Metamorphosis in Mad Men (2007–2015) / 4. Earth-Object: Melodrama and Plasticity in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) / 5. Melodrama and Plasticity in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce (2011) / Bibliography / Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.8.2015 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 142 x 217 mm |
Gewicht | 281 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78348-047-5 / 1783480475 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78348-047-0 / 9781783480470 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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