Thursday, January 29, 2015

Examples of Melodrama

Notes:


  • Pygmalion- considered the first full melodrama
  • Shakespeare plays (especially with accompanying music) like A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Operas and TV soap operas
  • A Tale of Mystery- first English truly melodramatic play
  • Hispanic TV dramas (telenovelas) and Asian TV Dramas
  • Moment of Truth movies (1990s), Agnes Browne (1999)
  • Classic movies like The Wizard of OZ, It's a Wonderful Life, West Side Story, Field of Dreams, Forrest Gump, Dead Poets Society, Titanic
  • Recent movies like The Fault in our Stars, UP, Marley & Me, The Notebook



Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melodrama
http://www.filmsite.org/melodramafilms4.html
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Melodrama


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