Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts by Ben Singer

Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts

Film and Culture Series

Ben Singer

256 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to t...

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