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Melodramatic Spectatorship

Melodramatic Spectatorship is a theoretical construct within film and media studies that designates the mode of audience engagement characterized by heightened emotional identification with marginalized or transgressive figures, particularly within queer narratives, where moral polarization and affective excess enable critical resistance to normative ideological frameworks.

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2017–2026

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Publications

62

Melodrama and modernity: early sensational cinema and its contexts

Choice Reviews Online · 2001 · 455 citations

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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

James W. Tuttleton, Peter Brooks · The Modern Language Review · 1979 · 453 citations

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Passionate views: film, cognition, and emotion

Carl Plantinga · Choice Reviews Online · 1999 · 363 citations

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The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess

Leo B. Levy, Peter Brooks · Studies in Romanticism · 1978 · 236 citations

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Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts

Lee Grieveson · Screen · 2002 · 204 citations

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Authors

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  1. PB
    Peter Brooks

    Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia

    3 publications · 740 citations

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  2. BM
    Bruce McConachie

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    2 publications · 53 citations

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  3. AK
    Annette Kühn

    University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  4. JM
    Jane M. Gaines

    John Brown University, United States

    1 publications · 41 citations

    1

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  5. MT
    Miriam Thaggert

    1 publications · 12 citations

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Institutions

26

  1. Birkbeck, University of London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  2. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  3. Luther University

    Seoul, South Korea

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  4. University of Lisbon

    Lisbon, Portugal

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  5. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  6. University of Aveiro

    Aveiro, Portugal

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  7. Washington and Lee University

    Lexington, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  8. Vassar College

    Town of Poughkeepsie, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 8 publications · 1.1K citations

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  2. Screen

    3 publications · 422 citations

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  3. Theatre Journal

    3 publications · 142 citations

    3

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  4. European journal of Turkish studies

    EJTS · 1 publications · 17 citations

    1

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  5. Feminist Media Histories

    1 publications · 12 citations

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