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'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)
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Brings Melodrama and Sigourney Weaver as a Flower-obsessed Matriarch to Streaming
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