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Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television
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Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television Hardcover - 2015

by Monique Rooney

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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.

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  • Title Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television
  • Author Monique Rooney
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Date 2015-08-31
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781783480463 / 1783480467
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Melodrama in motion pictures, Melodrama on television
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015007646
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

About the author

Monique Rooney is a lecturer in the English Program, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University.

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