Love & (Mellow) Drama

Love & (Mellow) Drama

Author: Manali Desai

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published: 2023-08-07

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 9358466871

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Gayatri Kulkarni: A gen Z girl who has always lived under the shadow of her elder brother Sharad; so much so that she even chose her degree and college following in his footsteps. Although she doesn’t regret it, she wishes her parents would understand her dream to pursue her one true passion - DANCE. Varun Agarwal: A millennial who believes there are no shortcuts in life. He has learned the hard way that being born into a wealthy family comes with more cons than the world would ever understand. She belongs to a Maharashtrian middle-class family from the suburbs. He hails from an affluent family in South Bombay. The only common point between them - being Mumbaikars. How do their paths cross in this city of dreams? Gayatri believes it’s because of Abhi Agarwal, Varun’s younger brother, who also happens to be her brother’s batchmate and close friend. But Varun has harboured a crush on her long before they exchanged hellos and phone numbers. Their story is a meeting of two generations and families, who are poles apart. Is there drama involved? Gayatri is often called a drama queen by those who know her. But after Varun’s entry into her life, she’s transformed from Miss Melodrama to Miss Mellowed Drama. Find out all about that transition in this much-awaited spin-off from Manali Desai’s debut novel, Love (Try) Angle, Love & (Mellow) Drama (Love Trials-II).


Secrets of a Serial Killer

Secrets of a Serial Killer

Author: Rosie Walker

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2020-07-17

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0008399964

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An edge-of-your-seat serial killer thriller that you won’t be able to put down!


Contesting Tears

Contesting Tears

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780226098142

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A Note on the Captions Preface Introduction 1: Naughty Orators: Negation of Voices in Gaslight 2: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Moments of Letter from an Unknown Woman3: Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager 4: Postscript: To Whom It May Concern 5: Stella's Taste: Reading Stella Dallas Notes Bibliography Filmography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.


Mexican Melodrama

Mexican Melodrama

Author: Elena Lahr-Vivaz

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0816532516

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Mexican Melodrama offers a timely look at critically acclaimed films that serve as key referents in discussions of Mexican cinema. Elena Lahr-Vivaz artfully portrays the dominant conventions of historical and contemporary Mexican cinema, showing how new-wave directors draw from a previous generation to produce meaning in the present.


Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context

Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context

Author: Monika M. Elbert

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-11-15

Total Pages: 902

ISBN-13: 1108650538

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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne and demonstrates why he continues to be a critically significant figure in American literature. The first section focuses on Hawthorne's interest in and knowledge of past (Puritan and colonial) and contemporary nineteenth-century history (women's, African American, Native American) as the inspiration for his writings and the source of his literary success. The second section explores his fascination with social history and popular culture by examining topics as mesmerism, utopian life styles, theatrical performances, and artistic innovations. The third section looks at how Hawthorne succeeded and excelled in the literary marketplace, as an author of children's literature, literary sketches, and historical romances. In the fourth section, Hawthorne's literary precursors, peers, colleagues, and successors are analyzed. In the final section, Hawthorne's attachment to family, nature, and home is examined as the source of creative inspiration and philosophical questing.


The Politics of Melodrama

The Politics of Melodrama

Author: Jonathan Smolin

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2024-12-17

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1503641287

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Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919–1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The Politics of Melodrama is the first book to take on this giant of Arabic fiction and consider both his outsized cultural influence and consequential position in Egyptian politics. Jonathan Smolin frames the work of Abdel Kouddous not only as romantic melodrama, but as an entirely new model of Arabic fiction as dissent—contesting the fate of the 1952 revolution, condemning Nasser's betrayal of democracy, and grappling with depths of guilt at what Egypt had become. Smolin reveals the surprisingly close relationship between the famed writer and Nasser. He offers a new reading of fiction during the Nasser era that inserts the importance of non-elite culture in the history of the period and reevaluates the production of Nasserism. Unearthing Nasser's repeated interventions both to shape the work of Abdel Kouddous and to discipline him personally, this book demonstrates how the media and popular fiction became spaces of negotiation between the intellectual and the state, contesting Nasser and his politics during a period that has been widely assumed to be devoid of dissent.


An Age of Melodrama

An Age of Melodrama

Author:

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2008-09-03

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0804779627

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At the turn of the century, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. This book examines four popular novels from this period by interweaving two threads of argument.


Latin American Melodrama

Latin American Melodrama

Author: Darlene J. Sadlier

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2009-08-18

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0252034643

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The first book to consider cinematic and televisual melodrama in a broad Latin American and U.S. Latino context


Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama

Author: Louis Bayman

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1474402879

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Italian cinemas after the war were filled by audiences who had come to watch domestically-produced films of passion and pathos. These highly emotional and consciously theatrical melodramas posed moral questions with stylish flair, redefining popular ways of feeling about romance, family, gender, class, Catholicism, Italy, and feeling itself. The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama argues for the centrality of melodrama to Italian culture. It uncovers a wealth of films rarely discussed before including family melodramas, the crime stories of neorealismo popolare and opera films, and provides interpretive frameworks that position them in wider debates on aesthetics and society. The book also considers the well-established topics of realism and arthouse auteurism, and re-thinks film history by investigating the presence of melodrama in neorealism and post-war modernism. It places film within its broader cultural context to trace the connections of canonical melodramatists like Visconti and Matarazzo to traditions of opera, the musical theatre of the sceneggiata, visual arts, and magazines. In so doing it seeks to capture the artistry and emotional experiences found within a truly popular form.