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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 3 August 2023 of The Conversation est. 2011 The Conversation
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* Contents derived from the 2023 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Brings Melodrama and Sigourney Weaver as a Flower-obsessed Matriarch to Streaming, Ari Mattes , single work review
— Review of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Sarah Lambert , Kirsty Fisher , Kim Wilson , 2023 series - publisher film/TV ;

'In Melodrama Revised, an essay from 1998, film theorist Linda Williams suggests melodrama situates the audience in a direct empathetic relationship with a victim, so we emotionally experience the victim’s subjugation and then triumph with their overcoming. Oscillating between pathos and action, this is the dominant mode of popular American cinema (and culture more broadly).' (Introduction)

New Aussie Musical Bloom Misses an Opportunity to Interrogate the Gaps in Aged Care – and in Our Social Fabric, Sarah Austin , single work review
— Review of Bloom Tom Gleisner , 2023 single work musical theatre ;

'Bloom, the new Australian musical produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company, is proudly billed by the company as born and bred right here in Melbourne/Naarm.' (Introduction)

In Restless Dolly Maunder, Kate Grenville Recreates the Enterprising Life of an Obscure Historical Figure, Susan Sheridan , single work review
— Review of Restless Dolly Maunder Kate Grenville , 2023 single work novel ;

'Dolly Maunder, born in 1881, is the sixth of seven children of a sheep-farming family outside Tamworth in northern New South Wales. Their lives are a relentless round of hard work, indoors and out, relieved only a by few brief years at the local one-teacher school.' (Introduction)

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