discussion notes

1. FILM & MEDIA 392:
MELODRAMA, POLITICS AND CULTURE
MARC BOUSQUET, EMORY UNIVERSITY
Chuck Kleinhans, “Notes on Melodrama
and the Family Under Capitalism”

2. How are some melodramas “of and for a specific class, poised against
another class?” Does Upton Sinclair take melodrama in a different
direction?
FAMILY, CLASS, MELODRAMA

6. How does US! Expose the “social psychological situation?”MELODRAMA, EXPERIENCE AND EXPOSURE OF
THE “SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SITUATION.”

7. If so, how so?IS MELODRAMA’S AUDIENCE ACTIVE?

8. THE GODFATHER AS FAMILY MELODRAMA

9. REPRESSION OF CLASS STRUGGLE AND
MELODRAMATIC AMBIGUITY

10. THE FAMILY CAN’T SOLVE CAPITALISM