Melodrama (cinema)
At the 19th century, the melodrama was a theatrical Genre dramatic popular characterized by incredible situations where characters Manicheans clashed. Shortly after its birth, the cinema took again this theatrical technique to produce films made up of a series of violent oscillations between the moments of happiness and the moments of distress presented with the constant threat that the worst ends up triumphing.
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Scenario writers famous for their melodramas: Yevgeni Bauer, Alfred Machin, Griffith, Chaplin, Erich von Stroheim, King Vidor, Douglas Sirk, Luchino Visconti, Paul Vecchiali
- Actresses famous for their roles melodramatic: Lillian Gish, Barbara Stanwyck, White beet Davis, Joan Crawford.
Selective list
- 1914 : Maudite is the war of Alfred Machin
- 1918: blind Husbands of Erich von Stroheim
- 1919: the Lily broken , of D.W. Griffith
- 1920: Through the storm , of D.W. Griffith
- 1921: Both Orphan , of D.W. Griffith
- 1921: Kid , of Charles Chaplin
- 1921: Madnesses of women , Erich von Stroheim
- 1922: Animals… like the men of Alfred Machin
- 1936: the Novel of Marguerite Gautier ( Camille ) of George Cukor
- 1937: Stella Dallas of King Vidor
- 1937: Paramatta, bagne women ( Zu neuen Ufern ) of Detlef Sierck (Douglas Sirk)
- 1938: unsubdued the of William Wyler
- 1939: Victoire over the night of Edmund Goulding
- 1939: the Old maid of Edmund Goulding
- 1942: a woman seeks her destiny Irving Rapper
- 1946: Humoresque , of Michael Curtiz
- 1950: Boulevard of the twilight of Billy Wilder
- 1954: the Countess with the barefeet , of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1954: the splendid Secrecy , of Douglas Sirk
- 1955, 1956, 1959: Trilogy of APU , Satyajit Ray
- 1955: All that the sky allows , of Douglas Sirk
- 1957: the Tree of life , Edward Dmytryk
- 1959: Mirage of the life , Douglas Sirk
- 1966: Misunderstood the ( Incompreso ) of Luigi Comencini
- 1976: Innocent the of Luchino Visconti
- 1978: Body in heart of Paul Vecchiali
- 1995: On the road of Madison ( The Bridges off Madison County ) of Clint Eastwood
See too
- :Category: Film by kind
External bonds
- '' does the Melodrama make return? '' on artelio.org
Simple: Melodrama
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