Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2014-10-09T14:54:14Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Caroline Anielle Souza Batista Pires - 2013.pdf: 1340965 bytes, checksum: 7d2acc9b79ac5315688304038c0406b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2014-10-09T15:31:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Caroline Anielle Souza Batista Pires - 2013.pdf: 1340965 bytes, checksum: 7d2acc9b79ac5315688304038c0406b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T15:31:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Caroline Anielle Souza Batista Pires - 2013.pdf: 1340965 bytes, checksum: 7d2acc9b79ac5315688304038c0406b6 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-11-28 / This paper proposes the questioning and appropriation of the concept of imagination melodramatic , coined by Peter Brooks (1995 ) , in cinema. We apply the method of film analysis in the film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988 ) by filmmaker Pedro Almodovar . We chose to dedicate ourselves to the analysis of a film that departs in some respects from the classical structure of cinema, just to understand, with more depth , strength and inexhaustible vitality of the melodramatic imagination . In this process , it is necessary to recover the historical birth of melodrama and its recurrence in the theater so we can understand more clearly the breadth and scope of the concept . Question the concept of melodrama as a genre and work with the hypothesis of a melodramatic imagination before being impregnated in various theatrical and film productions , is built mainly by the look that the public launches on the work . The melodrama , or rather this imagination , thus , would be a lens through which the modern individual would structure and accelerated relatively solidly values appease him, at least superficially . / Este trabalho propõe a problematização e apropriação do conceito de imaginação melodramática, cunhado por Peter Brooks (1995), no cinema. Aplicaremos o método da análise fílmica no filme Mulheres à beira de um ataque de nervos (1988) do cineasta Pedro Almodovar. Optamos por nos dedicar à análise de um cinema que se afasta, em determinados aspectos, do cinema de estrutura clássica, justamente para compreender, com ainda mais profundidade, a força e vitalidade inesgotável da imaginação melodramática. Nesse processo, se faz necessário retomar o histórico do nascimento do melodrama e sua recorrência no teatro para que possamos compreender com mais clareza a amplitude e extensão do conceito. Questionamos a concepção do melodrama enquanto gênero e trabalhamos com a hipótese da presença de uma imaginação melodramática que, antes de estar impregnado nas mais diversas produções teatrais e cinematográficas, é construído prioritariamente pelo olhar que o público lança sobre a obra. O melodrama, ou melhor, essa imaginação, seria, assim, uma lente por onde o indivíduo moderno e acelerado estruturaria de maneira relativamente sólida valores que lhe apaziguam, ao menos superficialmente.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar como as Greves do ABC de 1979 e 1980, foram recuperadas pela atualização da peça teatral Eles não usam blacktie para o formato do melodrama, tomando como pressuposto que essa produção reflete um olhar do contexto sociocultural do período de redemocratização do país e uma crítica sobre o regime militar. / This thesis intends to analyse how the ABC strikes of brazilian workers at 1979 and 1980, was represented by cinema about a theatre play called They arent wore blackties (1955). The present analysis aims to account for both the internal structure of the ficcional narrative and its process of production, considering the specific sociohistorical context.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo analisar como as Greves do ABC de 1979 e 1980, foram recuperadas pela atualização da peça teatral Eles não usam blacktie para o formato do melodrama, tomando como pressuposto que essa produção reflete um olhar do contexto sociocultural do período de redemocratização do país e uma crítica sobre o regime militar. / This thesis intends to analyse how the ABC strikes of brazilian workers at 1979 and 1980, was represented by cinema about a theatre play called They arent wore blackties (1955). The present analysis aims to account for both the internal structure of the ficcional narrative and its process of production, considering the specific sociohistorical context.

This thesis illustrates how Melodrama and the melodramatic mode have been adapted within contemporary cinema as both a means of commenting on prior LGBTQI representation, and of exposing mainstream audiences to the issues still faced by many within this spectrum. Through my analyses of Carol (2015), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and A Single Man (2009), I examine how filmmakers have drawn on Melodrama as both an aesthetic form, and as a reference to the broader field of generic history and criticism which ground it as a subversive form of societal critique. By focusing specifically on how these three films portray ideological issues of gender, stereotyping, parenthood, aging, and personal shame, my thesis argues that these films are making a commentary on the damaging effects of these discourses on broader society. I also simultaneously question whether the Period Melodrama as a genre can ever fully escape the conservative nature of this form, as well as the implications of continuing to portray those on the LGBTQI spectrum as victims.

<p>The decade of the nineteen-twenties has generally been recognized as a dynamic period in English-Canadian literature, but so far as fiction is concerned its achievement is widely assumed to be the introduction of social realism into the Canadian novel. Those novels which employ other than realistic conventions have been assumed by many critics to be inferior because of their non-realistic aspects. </p> <p>This dissertation examines four such novels, supposedly flawed by melodramatic excess~ Raymond Knister's White Narcissus (1929), Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese (1925), Morley Callaghan's A Broken Journey (1932), and Frederick Philip Grove's The Yoke of Life (1930) - in order to discover the function and significance of melodramatic conventions and the sort of vision they project.</p> <p>The first part of the dissertation defines such terms as "realism" and ''melodrama." and explains the critical approach to be used. In the central four chapters, this critical approach is applied to each novel in turn.</p> <p>When the novels are compared, following the detailed analysis of each, significant similarities emerge. In thematic terms, a quest is undertaken, in each case, which is meaningful on several levels: on the literal level there is an arduous physical journey across or into a specific (and generally threatening) landscape; on a symbolic level there is a journey of mythological and/or religious import; in psychological terms the journey is into the less rational aspects of human experience in an attempt to re-integrate a personality divided against itself. In terms of structure, as well, certain patterns emerge: each novel employs a balanced, rather symmetrical structure, formal devices which tend to distance the reader from the material, and vortex-like patterns of movement on the part of the protagonist.</p> <p>The formal and thematic patterns which emerge from a comparison of the four novels, then, suggest that there is a "melodramatic mode" common to them, and possibly to novels of periods other than the one explored in this thesis. Indeed, it is further argued, melodramatic conventions (which are related to the gothic mode and romanticism in general) may serve as an appropriate vehicle for the expression in fiction of a profound modern theme, the portrayal of alienated man in a secularized and relativistic universe.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This diploma thesis deals with various possible ways in which the formalized expression of emotions that is characteristic of the melodramatic mode can be reinterpreted in the context of experimental cinema, with the work of the director Werner Schroeter being used as a main (but not exclusive) example. The main argument is based on two interrelated ideas. First, the melodramatic mode as a genre-bending category offers a wide repertory of stylistic features designed to express extreme emotional states or situations which can be encompassed by the term "melodramatic excess". This type of excess manifests itself most visibly in moments of intense passion when the plot breaks down and freezes in a static or symbolic arrangement, either through close-up or tableau vivant. All attention is thereby focused on the heroes' gestures and poses which express their emotional state face to face with an intense situation for which they cannot yet find an adequate response. Second, certain experimental films manage to transform the melodramatic excess through "expressive and performative operations" with filmic space, time and bodies, turning the exterior representation of emotions into the immanent expression of affects. In this case, affect is understood as a certain variation of emotions which demonstrates the...

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