Posts Tagged ‘ melodrama ’

The Art of Life: Cinema Verité and Melodrama Rendez-Vous in Robert Greene’s Actress

March 15, 2014
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The Art of Life: Cinema Verité and Melodrama Rendez-Vous in Robert Greene’s Actress

Now in its eleventh year, Columbia, Missouri’s True/False Film Festival is rapidly becoming a major stop on the North American festival circuit.
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Television that I Love: A Valentine to Unpredictable Melodrama

February 10, 2014
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Television that I Love: A Valentine to Unpredictable Melodrama

Sometimes love surprises us; I never thought I’d love Sons of Anarchy.
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Of Motorcycles and Melodrama

November 28, 2011
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Of Motorcycles and Melodrama

Sons of Anarchy has often been described as Hamlet on Harleys for good reason. But my readings of late have me thinking that the show actually offers some really different inflections on Modleski’s Loving with a Vengeance.
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Media, Mothers, and Me

November 8, 2010
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Media, Mothers, and Me

CBS's The Good Wife doesn't shy away from the challenges its protagonist faces in negotiating her adult life, something more than we tend to expect to see on television, where story lines often trade in emotionally false dichotomies.
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