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List of melodrama films

This is a chronological list of melodrama films. Although melodrama can be found in film since its beginnings, it was not identified as a particular genre by film scholars—with its own formal and thematic features—until the 1970s and 1980s, at a time when new methodological approaches within film studies were being adopted, which placed greater emphasis on ideology, gender, and psychoanalysis.[1] Much like film noir, melodrama was identified as a particular genre by film historians, and critics and theorists long after the films themselves had been made.[2] However, unlike film noir, the term "melodrama" was widely used in Hollywood prior to its adoption by critics and historians, although with a very different meaning, as it referred to fast-paced action thrillers featuring violence and dangerous stunts.[2] The definition of melodrama as a particular film genre—which emerged within film studies in the early 1970s—was eventually widely accepted by Hollywood filmmakers, reviewers, and journalists.[2]

The academic interest in melodrama arose from a 1970s critical reappraisal of the work of Douglas Sirk,[3] and the term evolved into a "broad category of cinema, one that often deals with highly-charged emotional issues, characterised by an extravagantly dramatic register and frequently by an overtly emotional mode of address."[4] Despite its popularity, the exact definition of melodrama has been the subject of extensive and complex debates, and the term functions as an umbrella term that hybridises several film cycles and sub-genres, including romantic dramas, costume dramas, psychological thrillers, gothic films, domestic dramas, juvenile delinquency films, and crime films, among others.[1] Some scholars have equated melodrama with the category of "woman's films", while others have used the term to refer to specific sub-genres, such as "family melodrama" or "maternal melodrama".[1] As noted by John Mercer and Martin Shingler, the term "can be (and has been) applied to a large and diverse body of film spanning virtually every decade of filmmaking history and to different continents and cultures: American, European (for example, Gainsborough Melodrama) and Eastern (as with Hindi cinema)."[5] To minimize dispute, the films included in this list should preferably be referenced with a reliable, published source by an expert in this field.

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  2. ^ a b c Mercer & Shingler 2013, Determining the genre.
  3. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 7.
  4. ^ Mercer & Shingler 2013, Introduction.
  5. ^ Mercer & Shingler 2013, Film Studies’ standard account of melodrama.
  6. ^ a b Landy 1991, p. 357.
  7. ^ a b Gledhill 1987, p. 47.
  8. ^ Landy 1991, p. 549.
  9. ^ a b c d Sadlier 2009, p. 4.
  10. ^ Peña 2012, Nobleza gaucha, o "la mina de oro".
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  12. ^ a b c d e f g h Gledhill 1987, p. 84.
  13. ^ Lang 1989, p. 65.
  14. ^ a b c Landy 1991, p. 201.
  15. ^ a b c d e f g h i Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: War Films.
  16. ^ Forsås-Scott, Helena; Stenberg, Lisbeth; Thorup Thomsen, Bjarne, eds. (2015). "The genre". Re-mapping Lagerlöf: Performance, Intermediality, and European Transmission (eBook). Lund: Nordic Academic Press. ISBN 978-918-767-526-3. Retrieved 17 January 2024 – via Google Books.
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  18. ^ a b Gledhill 1987, p. 50.
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  20. ^ a b c Gledhill 1987, p. 90.
  21. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 129.
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  23. ^ Bertellini, Giorgio, ed. (2004). The Cinema of Italy. London: Wallflower Press. p. 45. ISBN 978-190-336-498-7 – via Google Books.
  24. ^ Peña 2012, Edmo Cominetti.
  25. ^ a b Hake, Sabine (1994). "The Continuous Provocation of Louise Brooks". German Politics & Society (32). Berghahn Books: 58–75. ISSN 1045-0300. JSTOR 23736327. Retrieved 14 January 2024 – via JSTOR.
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  27. ^ a b c d e Gledhill 1987, p. 87.
  28. ^ a b c d e f Sadlier 2009, p. 9.
  29. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 97.
  30. ^ a b c Karush 2012, p. 107.
  31. ^ a b c d Mercer & Shingler 2013, Constructing film melodrama's history.
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  33. ^ a b c Gledhill 1987, p. 92.
  34. ^ Peña 2012, Manuel Romero.
  35. ^ a b c d e Sadlier 2009, p. 1.
  36. ^ a b c Karush 2012, p. 112.
  37. ^ a b Gledhill 1987, p. 88.
  38. ^ a b Peña 2012, La evolución de Argentina Sono Film.
  39. ^ a b c d e f Gledhill 1987, p. 83.
  40. ^ a b c Karush 2012, p. 109.
  41. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama at the BFI, 16 October to 29 November 2017". Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. 29 September 2017. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  42. ^ Peña 2012, Otras empresas.
  43. ^ Landy 1991, p. 111.
  44. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "La Cinémathèque française presents: French Melodrama". New York: Quad Cinema. 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
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  46. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 13.
  47. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 66.
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  49. ^ Karush 2012, p. 111.
  50. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: The Woman's Film.
  51. ^ a b c d e f g h Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Western Melodramas.
  52. ^ a b c d e f g Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Romance/Doomed Love.
  53. ^ a b Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Maternal Melodramas.
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  56. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: British Melodrama.
  57. ^ a b c d e f g Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: The Male Melodrama I: The Male Weepie.
  58. ^ Mercer & Shingler 2013, Reconstructing melodrama's history.
  59. ^ a b Kovács, András Bálint (2007). "Melodrama and Modernism". Screening Modernism: European Art Cinema, 1950-1980. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press. pp. 84–90. ISBN 978-022-645-166-4. Retrieved 17 January 2024 – via Google Books.
  60. ^ Peña 2012, Breve regreso de Baires.
  61. ^ Dixon 1994, p. 58.
  62. ^ a b c d e f Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Family Melodramas.
  63. ^ Sadlier 2009, p. 51.
  64. ^ a b Sadlier 2009, p. 103.
  65. ^ a b c d Sadlier 2009, p. 7.
  66. ^ a b c d e f Gledhill 1987, p. 167.
  67. ^ Peña 2012, p. Cultos y refinados.
  68. ^ Peña 2012, EFA se despliega.
  69. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Film Noir.
  70. ^ a b Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Gainsborough Melodrama.
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  72. ^ a b c d Sadlier 2009, p. 10.
  73. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Schatz 1981, p. 223.
  74. ^ Dixon 1994, p. 69.
  75. ^ a b c d e Sadlier 2009, p. 102.
  76. ^ a b c d e f g h Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: European Melodrama.
  77. ^ a b Gledhill 1987, p. 56.
  78. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Psychological Melodrama.
  79. ^ a b Peña 2012, San Miguel avanza.
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  81. ^ a b c Peña 2012, Asociados.
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  83. ^ a b c Dixon 1994, p. 54.
  84. ^ Peña 2012, Pasión y muerte de Pampa.
  85. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 67.
  86. ^ Peña 2012, Intensidad de Román Viñoly Barreto.
  87. ^ Peña 2012, El afán internacional.
  88. ^ Peña 2012, Manuel Peña Rodríguez.
  89. ^ Peña 2012, Amadori compra el cielo.
  90. ^ Dixon 1994, p. 64.
  91. ^ Peña 2012, Nuevos vientos en Sono.
  92. ^ Dixon 1994, p. 109.
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  94. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 58.
  95. ^ a b Gledhill 1987, p. 179.
  96. ^ a b Landy 1991, p. 144.
  97. ^ Dukalskis, Alexander; Hooker, Zachary (2011). "Legitimating totalitarianism: Melodrama and mass politics in North Korean film". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 44 (1). University of California Press: 53–62. ISSN 0967-067X. JSTOR 48609645. Retrieved 17 January 2024 – via JSTOR.
  98. ^ a b Sadlier 2009, p. 5.
  99. ^ Dixon 1994, p. 57.
  100. ^ a b Byars 1991, p. 64.
  101. ^ Byars 1991, p. 73.
  102. ^ a b c d Byars 1991, p. 63.
  103. ^ Lang 1989, p. 153.
  104. ^ a b c d Sadlier 2009, p. 6.
  105. ^ a b Wada-Marciano, Mitsuyo (2009). "The Postwar Japanese Melodrama". Review of Japanese Culture and Society. 21. Translated by Bianca Briciu. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press: 19–32. ISSN 0913-4700. JSTOR 42800257. Retrieved 15 January 2024 – via JSTOR.
  106. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Musical Melodramas.
  107. ^ Andrew, Dudley; Cavanaugh, Carole (2020) [2000]. Sanshō Dayū (Sansho the Bailiff). London & New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 978-183-871-931-9.
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  109. ^ Schatz 1981, p. 221.
  110. ^ a b c d e f g Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: 'Bollyood' Melodrama.
  111. ^ Byars 1991, p. 16.
  112. ^ a b c Gledhill 1987, p. 65.
  113. ^ Fujiwara, Chris (27 March 2020). "The Cranes Are Flying: A Free Camera". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 15 January 2024.
  114. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 59.
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  116. ^ a b Gledhill 1987, p. 211.
  117. ^ Dixon 1994, p. 56.
  118. ^ Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Sirk's Universal Melodramas.
  119. ^ Peña 2012, Operación prestigio.
  120. ^ Pravadelli, Veronica (2006). "Visconti's "Rocco and His Brothers": Identity, Melodrama, and the National-Popular". Annali d'Italianistica. 24. Elon: Elon University: 233–246. ISSN 0741-7527. JSTOR 24016306 – via JSTOR.
  121. ^ a b c Mercer & Shingler 2013, Todd Haynes: Far From Heaven.
  122. ^ a b c d e f g h Sadlier 2009, p. 12.
  123. ^ a b Gledhill 1987, p. 52.
  124. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Mercer & Shingler 2013, AIDS, Gay, Lesbian and Queer Cinema.
  125. ^ a b c d Mercer & Shingler 2013, The influence of Sirk.
  126. ^ a b c d e f g Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: The Male Melodrama II: The Action Melodrama.
  127. ^ a b c d Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: 'Sirkian' Melodramas.
  128. ^ Olea Romacho, Miguel (2022). "Teatralidad y modos de representación en el melodrama de Rainer W. Fassbinder: de Sirk a Artaud". Signa (in Spanish) (31). Madrid: Asociación Española de Semiótica: 633–650. ISSN 1133-3634. Retrieved 14 January 2024 – via Dialnet.
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  130. ^ Gledhill 1987, p. 32.
  131. ^ Saltz, Rachel (9 May 2013). "Going to Pains for Love in a Flashy Urban Jungle". The New York Times. New York. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  132. ^ Landy 1991, p. 386.
  133. ^ a b Peña 2012, Indirectos.
  134. ^ a b c d e f g h Mercer & Shingler 2013, Filmography: Chinese Melodrama.
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  137. ^ a b c d Sadlier 2009, p. 14.

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