Queer Melodrama is a cinematic mode that belongs to the broader category of melodramatic film but is distinguished by its critical engagement with non-normative sexualities and gender identities, often subverting heteronormative narratives through affective excess and the reworking of domestic, familial, and social crises within queer contexts.
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A Few Lies: Queer Theory and Our Method Melodramas
David Kurnick · ELH · 2020 · 88 citations
Tales of sound and fury: the family melodrama
Thomas Elsaesser · UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) · 1972 · 57 citations
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- CNChristopher Nealon
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Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
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41 citations
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, United States
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107 citations
Idaho State University
Pocatello, United States
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University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, United States
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- Camera Obscura Feminism Culture and Media Studies
3 publications · 65 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 3 publications · 81 citations
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- Debate Feminista
2 publications · 27 citations
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- Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture
QSMPC · 1 publications · 107 citations
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- New Literary History
NLH · 1 publications · 25 citations
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