Goldberg Melodrama

An Aesthetics of Impossibility
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7404-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Theory Q

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldberg, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

Part I. The Impossible Situation

1. Agency and Identity: The Melodrama in Beethoven's Fidelio 3

2. Identity and Identification: Sirk—Fassbinder—Haynes 23

Part II. Melos + Drama

3. The Art of Murder: Hitchcock and Highsmith 83

4. Wildean Aesthetics: From "Paul's Case" to Lucy Gayheart 133

Coda 155

Notes 169

Bibliography 187

Index 197

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Goldberg is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English at Emory University and the author of several books, most recently Strangers on a Train: A Queer Film Classic. He is also the author of Willa Cather and Others and editor of Queering the Renaissance, both also published by Duke University Press.