melodrama – Animation Studies

Grace Han – Back to Front: Animating Melodrama in Makoto Shinkai’s Garden of Words (winner)

Posted on September 13, 2020April 25, 2021 by Amy Ratelle, editor (2011-2021)

The late twentieth century witnessed multiple reconsiderations of the reiterated filmic melodrama in cinema studies. To some, the filmic melodrama stands as a poignant example of women’s film (Williams p. 2); to others, it represents the neo-Marxist liberation of bourgeois struggle (Gledhill pp. 6-8); and still to others, it exists as a mode of expression, […]

Amy Ratelle – Half-breed Dog, Half-breed Film: Balto as Animelodrama

Posted on February 6, 2008August 10, 2012 by Timo Linsenmaier

Linda Willams (1998) defines melodrama as “a peculiarly democratic and American form that seeks dramatic revelation of moral and emotional truths through a dialectic of pathos and action” (p. 42). This emphasis on moral and emotional truth, as opposed to cinematic realism or adherence to historical fact positions the figure of the “suffering innocent” (p. […]

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Grace Han – Back to Front: Animating Melodrama in Makoto Shinkai’s Garden of Words (winner)

Amy Ratelle – Half-breed Dog, Half-breed Film: Balto as Animelodrama