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Melodrama
An Aesthetics of Impossibility
Taschenbuch von Jonathan Goldberg
Sprache: Englisch

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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, such as impasses in sexual relations that are not simply reflections of social taboo and prohibitions, Goldberg pursues films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to Sirk's prompt. His analysis hones in on melodrama's original definition--a form combining music and drama--as he explores the use of melodrama in Beethoven's opera Fidelio, films by Alfred Hitchcock, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith, including her Ripley novels. Goldberg illuminates how music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories meant to regulate social life. The interaction of musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making it resistant to normative forms of value and a powerful tool for creating new potentials.
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, such as impasses in sexual relations that are not simply reflections of social taboo and prohibitions, Goldberg pursues films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Todd Haynes that respond to Sirk's prompt. His analysis hones in on melodrama's original definition--a form combining music and drama--as he explores the use of melodrama in Beethoven's opera Fidelio, films by Alfred Hitchcock, and fiction by Willa Cather and Patricia Highsmith, including her Ripley novels. Goldberg illuminates how music and sound provide queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories meant to regulate social life. The interaction of musical, dramatic, and visual elements gives melodrama its indeterminacy, making it resistant to normative forms of value and a powerful tool for creating new potentials.
Über den Autor
Jonathan Goldberg
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Part I. The Impossible Situation

1. Agency and Identity: The Melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio 3

2. Identity and Identification: Sirk—Fassbinder—Haynes 23

Part II. Melos + Drama

3. The Art of Murder: Hitchcock and Highsmith 83

4. Wildean Aesthetics: From "Paul's Case" to Lucy Gayheart 133

Coda 155

Notes 169

Bibliography 187

Index 197
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822361916
ISBN-10: 0822361914
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Goldberg, Jonathan
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Goldberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2016
Gewicht: 0,332 kg
Artikel-ID: 104187498
Über den Autor
Jonathan Goldberg
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Part I. The Impossible Situation

1. Agency and Identity: The Melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio 3

2. Identity and Identification: Sirk—Fassbinder—Haynes 23

Part II. Melos + Drama

3. The Art of Murder: Hitchcock and Highsmith 83

4. Wildean Aesthetics: From "Paul's Case" to Lucy Gayheart 133

Coda 155

Notes 169

Bibliography 187

Index 197
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822361916
ISBN-10: 0822361914
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Goldberg, Jonathan
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Goldberg
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.08.2016
Gewicht: 0,332 kg
Artikel-ID: 104187498
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