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FILM & MEDIA 392:
MELODRAMA, POLITICS AND CULTURE
MARC BOUSQUET, EMORY UNIVERSITY
Chuck Kleinhans, “Notes on Melodrama
and the Family Under Capitalism”
How are some melodramas “of and for a specific class, poised against
another class?” Does Upton Sinclair take melodrama in a different
direction?
FAMILY, CLASS, MELODRAMA
How does US! Expose the “social psychological situation?”MELODRAMA, EXPERIENCE AND EXPOSURE OF
THE “SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SITUATION.”
If so, how so?IS MELODRAMA’S AUDIENCE ACTIVE?
THE GODFATHER AS FAMILY MELODRAMA
REPRESSION OF CLASS STRUGGLE AND
MELODRAMATIC AMBIGUITY
THE FAMILY CAN’T SOLVE CAPITALISM

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Melodrama kleinhans

  • 1. FILM & MEDIA 392: MELODRAMA, POLITICS AND CULTURE MARC BOUSQUET, EMORY UNIVERSITY Chuck Kleinhans, “Notes on Melodrama and the Family Under Capitalism”
  • 2. How are some melodramas “of and for a specific class, poised against another class?” Does Upton Sinclair take melodrama in a different direction? FAMILY, CLASS, MELODRAMA
  • 3.
  • 4.
  • 5.
  • 6. How does US! Expose the “social psychological situation?”MELODRAMA, EXPERIENCE AND EXPOSURE OF THE “SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SITUATION.”
  • 7. If so, how so?IS MELODRAMA’S AUDIENCE ACTIVE?
  • 8. THE GODFATHER AS FAMILY MELODRAMA
  • 9. REPRESSION OF CLASS STRUGGLE AND MELODRAMATIC AMBIGUITY
  • 10. THE FAMILY CAN’T SOLVE CAPITALISM