May December and the Melodrama of Film Twitter

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Park Chan-wook's THE HANDMAIDEN is streaming on MUBI in Canada and many other countries. Get a whole month of great cinema FREE: https://mubi.com/broeydeschanel Follow and support the channel! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/broeydeschanel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/broey_deschanel/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeschanelBroey Sources: Marianne Boruch, “Melodrama” Poetry, vol. 203 (3) (2013). Peter Brooks, The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess, Yale University Press (1995). Roger Ebert, “Written on the Wind” rogerebert.com (1998). Marcie Frank, “At the Intersections of Mode, Genre, and Media: A Dossier of Essays on Melodrama” Criticism, vol.55 (4) (2013). Dave Kehr, “Written on the Wind” Chicago Reader (1985). Michael Koresky, “May December” Reverse Shot (2023). John Mercer and Martin Shingler, Melodrama: Genre, Style and Sensibility, Wallflower, London (2004). Andrew Ross, No Respect: Intellectuals and Pop Culture, Taylor & Francis (2016). Thomas Schatz, Hollywood Genres, Random House, New York, (1981). Ben Singer, Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts, Columbia University Press, New York (2001). Amy Taubin, ““I like feeling uncertain, displaced and unnerved”: Todd Haynes on May December” Sight & Sound (2023). Linda Williams, “Something Else Besides a Mother”: Stella Dallas and the Maternal Melodrama” Vol. 24, No. 1 (1984). Augustin Zarzosa, “Melodrama and the Modes of the World” Discourse, vo. 32 (2) (2010).