Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: The Reach of Melodrama ix
4. Acknowledgments xxvii
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I: MELODRAMA’S CROSSMEDIA, TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES
7. 1. Unbinding Melodrama 15
8. 2. The Passion of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination 31
9. 3. Boucicault in Bombay: Global Theater Circuits and Domestic Melodrama in the Parsi Theater 49
10. 4. Global Melodrama and Transmediality in Turn-of-the-Century Japan 69
11. 5. Transnational Melodrama, Wenyi, and the Orphan Imagination 83
12. 6. Performing/Acting Melodrama 99
13. 7. Melodrama and the Making of Hollywood 115
14. 8. Modernizing Melodrama: The Petrified Forest on American Stage and Screen (1935–1936) 135
15. 9. One Suffers but One Learns: Melodrama and the Rules of Lack of Limits 151
16. 10. World and Time: Serial Television Melodrama in America 169
17. 11. Melodrama’s “Authenticity” in Carl Th. Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc 185
18. PART II: CULTURAL AND AESTHETIC DEBATES
19. 12. “Tales of Sound and Fury . . .” or, The Elephant of Melodrama 205
20. 13. Repositioning Excess: Romantic Melodrama’s Journey from Hollywood to China 219
21. 14. Melodrama and the Aesthetics of Emotion 237
22. 15. Expressionist Aurality: The Stylized Aesthetic of Bhava in Indian Melodrama 253
23. 16. The Sorrow and the Piety: Melodrama Rethought in Postwar Italian Cinema 273
24. 17. Costumes as Melodrama: Super Fly, Male Costume, and the Larger-Than-Life 289
25. 18. Melodrama and Apocalypse: Politics and the Melodramatic Mode in Contagion 311
26. 19. Even More Tears: The Historical Time Theory of Melodrama 325
27. Bibliography 341
28. Contributor Biographies 367
29. Index 371