Search results for "Melodrama" - New World Encyclopedia
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- (1781), provided the groundwork for melodrama to become a recognized ... audience. The first example of musical melodrama, Goethe and others important ...20 KB (2,696 words) - 20:55, 26 February 2023
- Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Irish-born British writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, ...8 KB (1,094 words) - 13:15, 6 March 2024
- romanticism of an ancient Medieval past; melodrama; and parody (including ... incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting ...19 KB (2,806 words) - 12:13, 24 January 2023
- (1939); then played a Chinese girl in a melodrama, Disputed Passage (1939). ... comedy with Hope; Wild Harvest (1947), a melodrama with Alan Ladd and Preston; ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- His next play, a social satire and melodrama, was A Woman of No Importance ... January, 1895. This contains a political melodrama—as opposed to the marital ...34 KB (5,298 words) - 04:37, 18 November 2022
- passion; supernatural imagery; and intense melodrama—but raises them above the level of mere romance, crafting these elements together into a work of ...13 KB (2,034 words) - 18:16, 13 February 2024
- plots, and heightened emotion of melodrama; but where Stanislavski ... drama have regular musical accompaniment (melodrama and Japanese Nō, for example ...37 KB (5,637 words) - 17:32, 30 January 2024
- century country life into a pathetic melodrama with didactic traits. There are quite a few interpolations of different literary genres, such as ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- Dillinger was shot and killed after attending the film Manhattan Melodrama (coincidentally, a gangster film) at the Biograph Theater in Chicago ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- ** Snefrid, melodrama (1893) ** Saul og David (1902) ** Maskarade (1906) * Orchestral music ** Little Suite (1888) ** Symphony No. 1 in G minor (1892) ...14 KB (2,062 words) - 19:21, 26 November 2023
- to drama. This can be perceived in comedy, melodrama, and most other dramatic forms. There are sometimes deliberate attempts to subvert the structure ...14 KB (2,260 words) - 00:10, 1 December 2023
- quite well in staying clear of the art of melodrama, in its historical meaning ... performances thus avoiding the "Melodrama" genre. He had mostly ...29 KB (4,725 words) - 19:27, 13 February 2024
- murder of a Nazi agent as both a comedy and a melodrama. It was well received, and, along with the two earlier successful plays, confirmed Luce's ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 22:31, 10 December 2023
- also La Tour de Nesle (1832), another historical melodrama; and Kean (1836), based on the life of the great, and recently deceased, English actor Edmund ...15 KB (2,255 words) - 06:36, 20 July 2023
- After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of the 'verismo' style was introduced in Italy by Pietro Mascagni's ...16 KB (2,325 words) - 22:49, 28 August 2021
- for its overt sexuality. It is a melodrama about a son who wants to run off with his father's mistress. As far as his films are concerned ...15 KB (2,215 words) - 17:01, 4 July 2022
- htm Mercy Otis Warren's Gendered Melodrama of Revolution by Nina Baym] Retrieved December 26, 2008. In this work, not only did she offer ...17 KB (2,550 words) - 16:13, 9 November 2022
- turned for a model to Hollywood melodrama, particularly the films ... phase of Fassbinder’s filmmaking, using melodrama as a style to create critical ...50 KB (7,532 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based narratives and traditions, relating the travels and miraculous deeds of John ...18 KB (3,042 words) - 05:43, 15 June 2023
- a new persona as the tortured heroine of glossy melodrama. Joan Crawford received the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance. ...17 KB (2,572 words) - 13:41, 1 August 2022
- Romain Rolland (January 29, 1866 – December 30, 1944) was a French writer and dramatist, best known as the author of the novel series Jean ...26 KB (3,958 words) - 21:37, 16 April 2023
- to all forms of theater, directing and producing melodrama, vaudeville, opera, etc. In order to create an ensemble of actors all working together as ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2020
- performing in a production of the popular melodrama The Royal Slave she turned to burlesque, the least selective branch of the entertainment ...19 KB (2,934 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose ...22 KB (3,248 words) - 17:40, 31 October 2023
- After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo ... similar to the older German genre of Melodrama. When he did compose ...38 KB (5,681 words) - 00:49, 18 November 2022
- Dreyer's first film as director was a melodrama entitled The President (1918). Instead of studio actors employed by Nordisk, Dreyer assembled ...19 KB (2,998 words) - 15:20, 27 November 2023
- Although some consider Lang's work to be simple melodrama, he produced a coherent oeuvre that helped to establish the characteristics of ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- * Berton, Pierre, The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama , Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977 * Berton, Pierre, The Battle of Lake Erie, Toronto: ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- Criticized for using melodrama and catering to the tastes of the common folk, using a diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, Verdi ...22 KB (3,400 words) - 07:48, 24 January 2023
- and good girl Olivia de Havilland in the film melodrama In This Our Life (1942), and three of his Maltese Falcon stars (Bogart, Mary Astor, and Sydney ...23 KB (3,526 words) - 06:02, 3 August 2022
- not, like Dickens and Hardy, writers of melodrama—either humorous or pessimistic ... is a combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures ...48 KB (7,374 words) - 07:29, 22 January 2024
- shot in Hollywood, In Old California (1910), a melodrama about California in the 1800s, while it was still part of Mexico. Biograph stayed there for ...22 KB (3,307 words) - 22:38, 4 July 2022
- of drama from political satire into melodrama, and an evolution toward ... their noble subjects to the quickly developing melodrama. ...61 KB (9,767 words) - 03:12, 31 January 2023
- in Nathaniel Hawthorne's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson still ...25 KB (3,674 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- company to act in them. The Maid of Arran, a melodrama with songs based on William Black's novel A Princess of Thule, proved a modest success. Baum ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- the Porte Saint-Martin theatre, a popular melodrama theatre. In early 1866 ... she was offered a new role in Fédora, a melodrama written for her by Victorien ...103 KB (16,692 words) - 01:55, 22 March 2023
- returned to the 19th century's emphasis on melodrama and naturalism. [[Image:HenryMoore RecliningFigure 1951.jpg|thumb|Henry Moore was famous ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Hammett's was the source for the gangster melodrama City Streets (1931), directed by Rouben Mamoulian and photographed by Lee Garmes, who worked ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 19:47, 26 March 2024
- * De Noma, Elizabeth Ann. Multiple Melodrama: The Making and Remaking of Three Selma Lagerlöf Narratives in the Silent Era and the 1940s. Ann ...31 KB (4,475 words) - 21:12, 27 July 2023
- author Dame Daphne du Maurier. This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naïve young bride who enters a great English country home and must grapple ...29 KB (4,441 words) - 08:14, 20 July 2023
- in the autumn of 1969, when his space-age mini-melodrama "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK singles chart. In 1972, his seminal ...30 KB (4,767 words) - 07:53, 28 January 2024
- era, a period in which sentiment and gothic melodrama—particularly the novels of Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, and Victor Hugo, and the paintings ...30 KB (4,901 words) - 13:28, 2 February 2024
- Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She ...32 KB (4,715 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- Stop' at Roxy Stork Over Britain Tasteless Melodrama] The New York Times, September 1, 1956. Retrieved August 15, 2022. In his autobiography ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
- lineage to vaudeville, British music hall, melodrama and burlesque. New York did not have a significant theater presence until 1752, when William ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- role and he took the lead role in the early mafia melodrama: The Black Hand (1949). There followed Summer Stock (1950) - Judy Garland's last musical ...40 KB (6,390 words) - 06:42, 18 April 2024
- Kean achieved his greatest success in modern melodrama, and he was widely viewed as not prepossessing enough for the greatest Elizabethan roles. Audiences ...40 KB (6,125 words) - 04:47, 5 November 2022
- Connery had a major role in the melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair ...44 KB (6,554 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- where the emphasis was usually on action and melodrama rather than historical accuracy. These are little remembered today; probably the most noteworthy ...44 KB (6,905 words) - 18:14, 24 January 2024
- is the cornerstone of genres such as drama, melodrama, and romance. Emotion is also studied in non-human animals. === Sociology === ...51 KB (6,936 words) - 18:27, 13 February 2024
