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Tables of Contents for Imitations of Life
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
11
2
Introduction
13
18
I THE MELODRAMATIC CONTEXT
31
62
1. The Evolution of Social Melodrama
33
17
John G. Cawelti
2. The Melodramatic Imagination
50
18
Peter Brooks
3. Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama
68
25
Thomas Elsaesser
II GENRE, STYLE, AND AFFECT
93
100
4. Identifications
98
20
Charles Affron
5. Russian Formalist Theories of Melodrama
118
17
Daniel Gerould
6. Ways of Melodrama
135
13
Raymond Durgnat
7. The Family Melodrama
148
20
Thomas Schatz
8. Who Is Without Sin: The Maternal Melodrama in American Film, 1930-1939
168
15
Christian Viviani
9. The Moral Ecology of Melodrama: The Family Plot and Magnificent Obsession
183
10
Noel Carroll
III HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY
193
70
10. Notes on Melodrama and the Family under Capitalism
197
8
Chuck Kleinhans
11. The Anatomy of a Proletarian Film: Warner's Marked Woman
205
22
Charles Eckert
12. Leave Her to Heaven: The Double Bind of the Post-War Woman
227
10
Michael Renov
13. Madness, Authority, and Ideology in the Domestic Melodrama of the 1950s
237
11
David N. Rodowick
14. Melodrama and the Women's Picture
248
15
Pam Cook
IV PSYCHOANALYSIS, GENDER, AND RACE
263
86
15. Minnelli and Melodrama
268
7
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
16. Report on the Weekend School
275
8
Griselda Pollock
17. The Moving Image: Pathos and the Maternal
283
24
Mary Ann Doane
18. "Something Else Besides a Mother": Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama
307
24
Linda Williams
19. The Scar of Shame: Skin Color and Caste in Black Silent Melodrama
331
18
Jane Gaines
V DIRECTORS AND STARS
349
92
20. Realism and Romance: D. W. Griffith
353
9
A. Nicholas Vardac
21. The Films of D. W. Griffith: A Style for the Times
362
9
Alan Casty
22. Souls Made Great by Love and Adversity: Frank Borzage
371
9
John Belton
23. Closure and Containment: Marylee Hadley in Written on the Wind
380
8
Christopher Orr
24. Coppola, Cimino: The Operatics of History
388
10
Naomi Greene
25. The Collective Voice as Cultural Voice
398
11
Christine Saxton
26. Lana: Four Films of Lana Turner
409
20
Richard Dyer
27. Faces of the American Melodrama: Joan Crawford
429
12
Jean-Loup Bourget
VI TELEVISION MELODRAMA
441
98
28. The Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas
446
20
Tania Modleski
29. Crossroads: Notes on Soap Opera
466
7
Charlotte Brunsdon
30. Dallas and the Melodramatic Imagination
473
23
Ien Ang
31. A Reader-Oriented Poetics of the Soap Opera
496
29
Robert C. Allen
32. Men, Sex, and Money in Recent Family Melodramas
525
14
Ellen Seiter
VII EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN MELODRAMA
539
68
33. French Film Melodrama Before and After the Great War
542
27
Richard Abel
34. The Family Melodrama in the Italian Cinema, 1929-1943
569
9
Marcia Landy
35. Fassbinder's Reality: An Imitation of Life
578
8
Ruth McCormick
36. European Anti-Melodrama: Godard, Truffaut, and Fassbinder
586
10
Katherine S. Woodward
37. The Melodrama in Latin America: Films, Telenovelas, and the Currency of a Popular Form
596
11
Ana Lopez
Bibliography
607
4
Index
611