A Queer Perspective on Melodrama’s Social Life

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Susan Potter
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3457-8989

Abstract

A review of Jonathan Goldberg. 2016,' Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility', Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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Reviews
Author Biography

Susan Potter, University of Sydney

Susan Potter is a lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney. She has published essays on Todd Haynes’s melodrama, and lesbian representation and queer spectatorship in 1920s Hollywood cinema.

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