Loi, Ho Man. / "August 2011." / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Abstract (English and Chinese) --- p.iv / Note on Transcription --- p.vi / Table of Contents --- p.vii / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter One: --- National Allegory of Aesthetics? Narrative Cinema as a Standstill Image in Hong Kong Film Scholarship --- p.11-54 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Hong Kong Narrative Cinema as Allegory and Aesthetics --- p.15 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Ringo Lam and Crisis Cinema Revisited --- p.44 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- "Mobilization of Narrative and Spectacle in Hong Kong Cinema: The Image of the ""Depressive Hero"" in the Work of Ringo Lam" --- p.55-99 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Narrative and Spectacle in Hong Kong Film Studies --- p.56 / Chapter ´ؤ --- "Ringo Lam and the Screening of ""Depressive Heroes"" in Cinema" --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- "Jerking Tear, Shedding Blood: The Genre of ""Heroic Bloodshed"" as Melodrama in Hong Kong Cinema" --- p.100-133 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Melodrama and Its Vicissitudes in Film Studies --- p.102 / Chapter ´ؤ --- "The Mystery of Yi: The Melodramatic Nature of the Genre of ""Heroic Bloodshed""" --- p.116 / Chapter Chapter Four: --- Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbour as Thy Son: Prison on Fire (1987) below the Lion Rock --- p.134-163 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Let There be Friendship as Light in Prison --- p.135 / Chapter ´ؤ --- "Visualities as Biopolitics in the Genre of ""Heroic Bloodshed""" --- p.148 / Chapter Chapter Five: --- No Bloodshed after Tiananmen: Full Alert (1997) and the Postmodern Dialectic of Stability and Prosperity --- p.164-198 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Melodramatic Pathos and Action Revisited in Full Alert --- p.166 / Chapter ´ؤ --- Full Alert as False Alarm: The Stable Prosperity of Postmodern Hong Kong --- p.180 / Chapter ´ؤ --- "Excursus/Excursion: Hong Kong Cinema after ""Heroic Bloodshed""" --- p.191 / Conclusion --- p.199 / Bibliography --- p.229 / Filmography --- p.247

Considerando a relação História-Cinema, a presente dissertação é uma reflexão sobre a produção cinematográfica anarquista da CNT durante a Guerra Civil Espanhola (1936-1939), a partir da análise de três de seus principais filmes de ficção: Carne de Fieras (1936/1992), Barrios Bajos (1937) e Aurora de Esperanza (1937). Eles foram construídos numa estrutura de narrativa clássica e melodramática e, dotados de temáticas diversas, como o adultério, a prostituição assediada por gangsteres e o drama do desemprego, representam uma iniciativa ímpar na construção de um cinema social, sob o comando de uma poderosa organização anarquista e durante o processo revolucionário. Neste sentido, consideramos também os meandros do desenvolvimento do anarquismo e do cinema espanhóis, cujas singularidades imprimiram uma dinâmica específica àqueles filmes. / Considering the relation between History and Cinema, this present dissertation will ponder on the anarchist cinematographic production of CNT during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) through the analysis of three of its most important fiction works: Carne de Fieras (1936/1992), Barrios Bajos (1937) and Aurora de Esperanza (1937). They were structured in a classic and melodramatic narrative and, dealing with several themes, as adultery, gangster-linked prostitution and the misfortune of unemployment, they represent a unique initiative in the construction of a social cinema, under the command of a powerful anarchist organization during the revolutionary process. In this sense, well consider the specifics in the development of Spanish anarchism and cinema, for their singular features have given a specific dynamic to those movies.

My first semester pursuing my MFA in Voice and Speech Pedagogy I vocal-coached an openly gay student playing a straight character who would mask his sexual identity in such a manner that his performance became stiff and uninteresting. Rather than using his personal identity as an asset in the pursuit of a successful performance, his chosen vocal tactics removed any sense of theatricality from his performance. I confronted the student and suggested such extreme vocal suppression diminished the quality of his overall performance. He replied, "So you want me to get the gay out."His use of the phrase, "get the gay out" to describe a fuller adaptation of his sexual identity to suit the character fascinated me and led to me to create a performance seminar course that used open acknowledgment of Camp performance styles as a valuable way to prepare students, gay or straight, for careers on the stage and screen. This thesis is a record of the course taught in the spring of 2007; CAMP: RIDICULOUS THEATRE AS SERIOUS DRAMA.

ABSTRACT The single-mother figure shows up in myriad American film genres, and my thesis explores three of these genres, maternal melodrama, film noir, and horror. I argue there is a melodramatic mode that carries over from maternal melodrama to film noir and horror. This mode emphasizes emotional excess. In maternal melodrama, the emotional excess is pity. For film noir, the emotion is anxiety, and in horror, it is repulsion. Even though each genre has its own emotional excess, maternal melodrama still speaks to these other genres through its maternal sacrifice, non-heteronormative families and misreading of proper gender performances. For this reason, I intentionally begin with classic maternal melodrama, wherein conventional gender roles, heteronormative familial structures, and mother-daughter separation are standard features. In Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937), Stella misreads what "proper" femininity looks like. As a result, she believes she is "bad" for her daughter, Laurel, and makes the heart-wrenching decision to sacrifice Laurel to a traditional nuclear family. The other films I chose extend Stella Dallas' interest in gender roles, kinship structures, and mother-daughter separation but also subtly change the maternal melodrama's relationship to heart-wrenching sacrifice. In each of three chapters, I explore Michael Curtiz's film noir Mildred Pierce (1945), Douglas Sirk's melodrama Imitation of Life (1959) and William Friedkin's horror film The Exorcist (1973). After examining the standard features of maternal melodrama in Stella Dallas, I begin to explore them in other genres that focus on one of the three ideas more predominantly. These ideas are gender roles, kinship structures, mother-daughter separation. This does not mean that each film is limited to only one idea. All of the films address gender performance, familial structure, and mother-child separation, but I let each film take the lead on one of the three ideas. In Mildred Pierce, I explore gender performance. Mildred performs masculinity and femininity depending on whether she is in the public or private sphere. Imitation of Life takes the lead on alternative kinship. The film illustrates how two single mothers create a economically viable non-heteronormative interracial family. I conclude with The Exorcist and the possibility that the mother and child do not need to separate like Stella and Laurel. The Exorcist challenges what has long been considered a necessary process. This is the only film that successfully keeps mother and child united. I believe this project draws attention to the lack of analysis of single mothers in American film, but more importantly, it makes us rethink motherhood. The single mother privileges a certain approach to gender performance, familial structure, and mother-child separation that feminist theory and film studies have overlooked. This approach includes a masculine gender performance to perform as a father, disrupting the heteronormative familial structure to make it work for them, and mothers maintaining a relationship with their adolescent daughters.

This dissertation analyzes melodrama as a common mode of mid-nineteenth century cultural expression. The dissertation centres on the melodrama in Bulwer Lytton's novels, emphasizing Lytton's use of melodrama as a form of radical social criticism. The first novels expose contemporary social inequities, but employ melodramatic techniques sparingly. Later, Lytton shows complete understanding of the melodramatic method and the 'political' basis of melodrama, resulting in novels such as Paul Clifford and Night and Morning. Other novels, though, display, uneasiness with the one-sided analysis of life presented in melodrama, while Zanoni attacks the naivety of melodramatic social criticism. Most of the last novels condemn melodrama for its simple-mindedness, or falsification of human experiences. In addition, 'reactionary' novels such as The Parisians reject the radical social vision of melodrama as neither attainable nor desirable.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2010 Jun 1.

Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em Literatura / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-24T00:32:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 255628.pdf: 1982495 bytes, checksum: 35d51310ceaf44f984a026abf0db5baa (MD5) / Esta tese busca uma leitura possível das razões do fracasso de grande parte das adaptações da dramaturgia de Nelson Rodrigues para o cinema. Sua primeira investida percorre o teatro rodrigueano, elaborando o conceito de dupla tensão como marca do autor. A primeira tensão, articulada ainda nos domínios temáticos, responderia pelo embate firmado entre o Brasil anterior à gripe-espanhola e os "novos tempos", dominados por uma modernidade produtora de tripla decadência, como pensa Eric Hobsbawm. A segunda tensão, insinuada nos domínios estéticos, promoveria certo afastamento do conceito de drama puro, segundo teoria de Peter Szondi, ao se deixar contaminar por gêneros diversos, posicionando-se entre o melodramático e o trágico. Neste contexto, Toda nudez será castigada, peça de 1965, seria o ponto mais alto desta trajetória. Tal conformação, perseguida em todo o teatro do autor, não parece ter encontrado eco nas releituras do cinema, quase todas reducionistas do universo tensional. A única experiência de exceção parece acontecer na versão de Arnaldo Jabor justamente para Toda nudez será castigada, filme de 1973 que transforma em ritmo próprio as tensões típicas da dramaturgia rodrigueana, movimento contrário às outras versões, que tentaram corrigi-las com sínteses nas mais variadas proposições.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-17T15:24:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-12-02. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-09-17T15:47:32Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000844063.pdf: 3271879 bytes, checksum: 4b9ecafba5f91a617762be09ca713ee4 (MD5) / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / Résumé: Cette thèse développe une étude sur les aspects de l'écriture liée à l'esthétique mélodramatique dans le roman latino-américain du post-boom. Il s'agit de procédures créatives appropriées dans la constitution thématique-formel des romans, médiatisées par un dialogue avec des divers expédients narratifs, des technologies et des langages, comme le roman-feuilleton, le radio et le cinéma, ce qui lui donne une configuration dialogique et hybride. L'étude a comme corpus basique un ensemble de six romans limités aux décennies de la plus grande expressivité du récit du post-boom - les années 1970 et 1980 - sur lequelles s'associe un corpus sécondaire que dépasse ces limites temporels qui s'approche des époques plus récentes arrivant au début du XXIème siècle. Dans ce sens, le travail consiste dans l'étude d'un genre - le roman - avec une de ses manifestations de l'écriture (le roman de l'esthétique mélodramatique), dans une époque délimitée (le post-boom) et dans un lieu (L'Amérique Latine) qui de cette façon est lu comme une série littéraire encore ouverte et en train de se developper. La proposition se situe sur la limite de la littérature comparée, en prenant un comparatisme sud-sud qui privilégie le texte littéraire comme un objet de l'analyse et part de l'étude espécifique des manières comme des éléments thématique-formels et des estilemas de l'esthétique mélodramatique sont transposés pour les récits du corpus principal. À partir de ces analyses, on a identifié un ensemble des matrices de l'écriture qui guident le récit hybride et est marquée par la configuration mélodramatique qui cet ensemble des romans présentent, à savoir : le contenu social, la médiatisation du radio et du cinéma, la chanson populaire d'expression romantique et parodique. En ce sens, l'étude établit une espèce de cartographie thématique-formel de ... / Esta tese desenvolve um estudo sobre os aspectos escriturais associados à estética melodramática no romance latino-americano do pós-boom. Trata-se de procedimentos criativos apropriados na constituição temático-formal dos romances, mediados por um diálogo com diversos recursos narrativos, tecnologias e linguagens, como o romance-folhetim, o rádio e o cinema, que lhes confere uma configuração dialógica e híbrida. O estudo tem como corpus de base um conjunto de seis romances circunscritos às décadas de maior expressividade da narrativa do pós-boom, os anos 1970 e 1980, ao qual articula, também, um corpus secundário que ultrapassa tais limites temporais, aproximando-se de épocas mais recentes e chegando ao início do século XXI. Nesse sentido, o trabalho constitui-se no estudo de um gênero - o romance - em uma de suas vertentes escriturais (o romance de estética melodramática), numa determinada época (o pós-boom) e lugar (América Latina), que, desse modo, lida com uma série literária ainda aberta e em desenvolvimento. A proposta situa-se no marco da literatura comparada, adotando um comparatismo sul-sul que privilegia o texto literário como objeto de estudo, e parte da análise específica dos modos como elementos temático-formais e estilemas da estética melodramática são transpostos para as narrativas literárias do corpus de base. A partir dessas análises, identificamos um conjunto de matrizes escriturais norteadoras da narrativa híbrida e marcada pela configuração melodramática que esse conjunto de romances apresenta, a saber: o conteúdo social, a mediação do rádio e do cinema, a canção popular de feição romântica e a paródia. Desse modo, o estudo faz uma espécie de mapeamento temático-formal da estética reelaborada nessa vertente literária, que encontra no melodrama uma alternativa de renovação da narrativa, ao mesmo tempo em que situa a estética... / This dissertation focuses on the melodramatic aesthetics in the post-boom Latin American novel, from the perspective of comparative literature. Our basic corpus is formed by six novels published in the most expressive decades of the after-boom period, which are the 1970's and 1980's, while our secondary corpus goes up to the beginning of the 21st Century. Thus, the research deals with a literary series that is open and ongoing. The work analyses stylistic features and creative procedures that are employed in the formal and thematic constitution of the novels, in dialogue with a number of languages, media and narrative resources - like the newspaper serial novel, the radio and the cinema - emphasizing the dialogical and hybrid character of those novels. The analysis identifies a writing matrix that guides the hybrid narrative and that defines the melodramatic configuration of this set of novels, namely: social context, mediation of radio or cinema, romantic popular songs and parody. This study, then, carries on a formal and thematic mapping of the melodrama as it is reworked in a literary trend for which the melodrama offers a possibility to renew the narrative form. The study sees the melodramatic aesthetics as a long lasting line that is relevant for Latin American literary system. Also, it concludes that the openness of literary discourse to individual categories such as the black, the woman, the homosexual, and to cultural products like the melodrama or the serial novel, often seen as minor in the social fabric, enhances a paradoxical critical view of the alienation associated to the consumption and the marketing of cultural industry products, and indicates possible paths for a critical dialogue with those products inside literature / En esta tesis se hace un estudio de los aspectos escriturales relacionados con la estética melodramática en la novela latinoamericana del posboom. Son artificios creativos de los que se apropia para la constitución temática y formal de las novelas, mediados por un diálogo con múltiples recursos narrativos, tecnologías y lenguajes, como el folletín, la radio y el cine, que les asigna una configuración dialógica e híbrida. El estudio adopta para el corpus principal un grupo de seis novelas adscritas a la época de más expresividad de la narrativa del posboom, las décadas de 1970 y 1980, al que vincula un corpus complementario que supera dichos límites temporales, acercándose a épocas recientes y al comienzo del siglo XXI. Así que el trabajo se constituye en el estudio de un género - la novela - en una de las vertientes escriturales (la novela de estética melodramática) de una época (el posboom) y un lugar (América Latina), lo cual hace que manejemos una serie literaria todavía abierta y en curso. La propuesta se ancla en el marco de la literatura comparada y despliega un comparatismo sur-sur que le asigna importancia al texto literario en tanto objeto de estudio, partiendo del análisis específico de los modos de transposición de los elementos temáticos y formales de la estética melodramática hacia las narrativas literarias del corpus principal. Entonces, a partir de dichos análisis, pudimos identificar un conjunto de matrices escriturales que orientan a la narrativa híbrida y melodramática de estas novelas, que son las siguientes: el contenido social, la mediación de la radio y el cine, la canción popular de matiz romántico y la parodia. De este modo el estudio logra presentar una suerte de mapeo de los elementos de la estética recreada en esta vertiente literaria, que halla en el melodrama una opción de renovación de la narrativa, a la vez que ubica la estética

Si de nombreuses études occidentales portent sur le cinéma chinois contemporain, les écrits occidentaux consacrés aux films de la première moitié du 20t: siècle sont presque inexistants. Cette recherche propose une réflexion sur un champ d'étude méconnue en France qu'est le mélodrame cinématographique chinois durant la période républicaine (1911-1949). Elle envisage une réévaluation sur les films souvent qualifiés de « réalistes» et de « révolutionnaires ». Les œuvres mélodramatiques chinoises possèdent de multiples facettes: son style stéréotypé (la victime, le traître, le misérabilisme et le manichéisme), sa nature hybride (influence occidentale et héritage chinois), et ses messages contradictoires (conservateurs pour certains, révolutionnaires pour d'autres). En dépit de son caractère propagandiste, le mélodrame apparaît comme étant l'un des genres les plus appréciés par le peuple chinois et les intellectuels. / Many western film scholars have strong interest to the Chinese contemporary movie, but, rarely they devotes to the films of the first half of the 20s century. This study proposes a reflection on a field of study that is the Chinese film melodrama during the Republican period (1911-1949), a field of study which is utterly neglected in France. It envisages a revaluation on the movies often called "realist" and "revolutionary". Chinese melodramatic films possess multiple faces: its stereotyped style (the victim, the traitor, the miserabilism and the Manichaeism), its hybrid nature (Chinese heritage and western influences), and contradictory messages (conservative for some people, revolutionaries for others). Despite its propagandistic character, melodrama is considered as one of the most popular gender by both the Chinese people and intellectuals.

Cette thèse porte sur la circulation de la théâtralité du cirque, de la France aux régions intérieures du Brésil, en prenant comme référence la configuration du spectacle de cirque moderne et la présence du théâtre dans le Cirque Olympique de 1807 à 1836. Le théâtre y est considéré comme un des éléments de la pluralité du cirque qui arriva au Brésil au XIXe siècle. Pour comprendre la circulation de cette dramaturgie, l’étude se porte sur le système de transports du pays, en se focalisant sur les chemins de fer, afin de mesurer l’impact culturel du Bahia and São Francisco Railway et du Chemin de Fer São Francisco dans les régions intérieures de l’Etat de Bahia, pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle. Ce qui permet de réaliser une analyse de la vie culturelle de ce « réseau de villes » bénéficiaires des chemins de fer, en particulier les villes de Alagoinhas, Serrinha, Senhor do Bonfim et Juazeiro. A titre d’exemple de cette circulation, l’étude se concentre sur le mélodrame français Les deux sergents, de D’Aubigny, présenté pour la première fois au public au Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin en 1823. Traduit en portugais, il fut représenté par des cirques et des compagnies théâtrales, dans différentes villes du Brésil, dont celles étudiées ici, et illustre un vrai triomphe de la dramaturgie mélodramatique française au Brésil, pendant plus d’un siècle. / This paper discusses the transit of the circus-theatricality from France to the interior of Brazil with reference to the configuration of the modern circus show and the presence of the theatre at the Cirque Olympique between the years 1807 and 1836. The theatre is therefore treated as an element of the plurality of the circus that came to Brazil in the nineteenth century. To understanding this circulation it is necessary to analyse the transport system in the country, focusing on the railroads, to point out the cultural impacts of the Bahia and San Francisco Railway and the Railway San Francisco on the interior of Bahia in the first half of the twentieth century and an analysis of the cultural life in the "network of cities" in Bahia, benefited by the railroads, especially the cities Alagoinhas, Serrinha, Senhor do Bonfim and Juazeiro. As an example of this movement, we discuss the French melodrama Les deux sergents from D'Aubigny, whose debut performance took place at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in 1823. Translated into Portuguese, the piece was performed by circuses and theatre companies in several Brazilian cities, including those encompassed by this study, featuring a triumph of French melodramatic dramaturgy in Brazil over the course of more than a century.