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The Melodrama of Care in Contemporary Global Cinema

Chang, Jeong (University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)

This project focuses on films that reveal concerns about care and subjectivity in a world transformed by neoliberalism, flexible capital, and globalization. As these films show, care is still necessary, but under the logic ...
Melodramas of Ethnicity and Masculinity: Generic Transformations of Late Twentieth Century American Film Gangsters

Ennis, Larissa (University of Oregon, 2012)

Larissa Ennis Doctor of Philosophy Department of English March 2012 Title: Melodramas of Ethnicity and Masculinity: Generic Transformations of Late Twentieth Century American Film Gangsters The gangster film ...
Remade in Our Image: Gender, Melodrama, and Conservatism in Post-9/11 Slasher Remakes

Hayt, Anthony (University of Oregon, 2014-06-17)

This project details the ways in which the classic slasher films of the 1970s, and their post-9/11 remakes, are representative of the individual and complex world views out of which each set of films were borne. The remakes ...
The Melodramatics of Turkish Modernity: Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut] and its Cinematic Afterlife

Germen, Baran (University of Oregon, 2019-01-11)

Proposing melodrama as an aesthetics of victimhood, my dissertation examines the intermedial itineraries of notable feminist Halide Edib’s Vurun Kahpeye [Strike the Slut]. Originally serialized in 1923 and published as a ...