Melodrama : an aesthetics of impossibility / Jonathan Goldberg.
| Author/creator | Goldberg, Jonathan author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2016. |
| Copyright Date | ©20 |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xvi, 205 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Theory Q Theory Q. ^A1303190 |
| Contents | Agency and identity: the melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio -- Identity and identification: Sirk, Fassbinder, Haynes -- The art of murder : Hitchcock and Highsmith -- Wildean aesthetics: from "Paul's case's" to Lucy Gayheart. |
| Abstract | Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life. |
| General note | "A series edited by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Goldberg, Jonathan. Melodrama. Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 9780822361756 9780822361916 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9780822374046 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0822374048 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Stock number | 941155 MIL |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv11qpx15 JSTOR |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |