Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Preface 1. Introduction: Film and TV Melodrama: An Overview PART I: TELEVISION MELODRAMA 2. Melodrama and the Classic Television Serial; Richard Butt 3. Nature, Culture, Space: The Melodramatic Topographies of Lark Rise To Candleford; Douglas McNaughton 4. 'We Are Like That Only': Prime Time Family Melodramas On Indian Television; Shoma Munshi 5. On the 'Scalpel's Edge': Gory Excess, Melodrama and Irony in Nip/Tuck; Alexia Smit 6. 'Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik': Unearthing Gay Male Anxieties in Queer Gothic Soaps Dante's Cove and The Lair; Darren Elliott-Smith 7. Don't Stop Believing: Textual Excess and Discourses of Satisfaction in the Finale of The Sopranos; Marty Zeller-Jacques PART II: FILM MELODRAMA 8. Melodrama as History and Nostalgia: Reading Hong Kong Director Yonfan's Prince of Tears; Kenneth Chan 9. Vincere: A 'Strikingly Effective' Contemporary Film Melodrama; Anne Gailly 10. Vienna to Beijing: Xu Jinglei's Letter From An Unknown Woman andthe Symbolic Simulation of Europe; Sarah Artt 11. Deconstructing Melodramatic Destiny: Late Marriage and Two Lovers; Robert Lang 12. Anticipating Home: The Edge of Heaven as Melodrama; Michael Stewart 13. Framing a Hybrid Tradition: Realism and Melodrama in About Elly; Taraneh Dadar Index