Monique Rooney: 1 book
Living Screens
Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
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...
