Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility by Jonathan Goldberg

Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility

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Jonathan Goldberg

224 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art classics history lgbtqia+ literary medium-paced
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Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility. Focused on the notion of what Douglas Sirk termed the "impossible situation" in melodrama,...

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