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Understanding Melodrama - Page 4

MD = Melodrama
(1-8: Sirk's Universal MDs)
(8-13: "Sirkian" MDs)
(14-35: The Woman's Film)
(36-43: Romance/Doomed Love)
(44-53: Family MD)
(54-64: The Male MD I: The Male Weepie)
(65-71: The Male MD II: The Action MD)
(72-76: Maternal MD)
(77-88: Musical MD)
(89-96: Silent MD)
(97-105: War Films)
(106-113: Gainsborough MD)
(114-121: Historical Costume MD)
(122-135: Aids, Gay, Lesbian and Queer Cinema)
(136-147: Film Noir)
(148-155: Western MD)
(156-166: Psychological MD)
(167-179: Brittish MD)
(180-186: Bollywood MD)
(187-194: Chinese MD)
(195-202: European MD)
Short Cuts, a series of books on film studies, defines "melodrama" not as a film genre, but as a widely comprehensive and pervasive cinematic structure, characterized by the use of musical accompaniment to punctuate the emotional effects and a narrative marked by pathos, aiming to culminate in tears or strong emotions among the audience. This is a list of films they use to illustrate their wonderful analysis.
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
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Boys Don't Cry (1999)
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The Crying Game (1992)
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
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Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
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The Big Sleep (1946)
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Caught (1949)
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Crossfire (1947)
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Deception (1946)
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Double Indemnity (1944)
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Gilda (1946)
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
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Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
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Johnny Guitar (1954)
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A Man Called Horse (1970)
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River of No Return (1954)
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Shane (1953)
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Stagecoach (1939)
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Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
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Rotten Tomatoes®   60%
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Baby Doll (1956)
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Rotten Tomatoes®   81%
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Black Narcissus (1947)
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Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
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The Dark Mirror (1946)
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Marnie (1964)
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Rotten Tomatoes®   41%
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