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Author Klinger, Barbara, 1951-

Title Melodrama and meaning : history, culture, and the films of Douglas Sirk / Barbara Klinger
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description xx, 200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: The Many Faces of Melodrama -- 1. The "Progressive" Auteur, Melodrama, and Canonicity -- 2. Selling Melodrama: Sex, Affluence, and Written on the Wind -- 3. Tastemaking: Reviews, Popular Canons, and Soap Operas -- 4. Star Gossip: Rock Hudson and the Burdens of Masculinity -- 5. Mass Camp and the Old Hollywood Melodrama Today -- Conclusion: Cinema, Ideology, History
Analysis MELODRAMA
SIRK, DOUGLAS
HUDSON, ROCK
ELSAESSER, THOMAS
MONROE, MARILYN
UNIVERSAL PICTURES
WRITTEN ON THE WIND (US, Douglas Sirk, 1956)
Notes Filmography: p. 181
Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-193) and index
Bibliography Filmography: page 181
Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-193) and index
Subject Hudson, Rock, 1925-1985.
Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987.
Sirk, Douglas, 1897-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Culture in motion pictures.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Melodrama in motion pictures.
LC no. 93027574
ISBN 0253331994 alkaline paper
0253208750 paperback alkaline paper