Mélodrame filmique revisité (Le)

Le mélodrame souffre, depuis ses débuts cinématographiques, d'une exploitation péjorative où la manipulation des émotions du public et l'excès de stylisation semblent être ses caractéristiques majeures. Minimisé, le genre mérite pourtant d'être revalorisé à travers des approches innovantes et un corpus élargi à la télévision, à l'animation et à Internet.

Revisiting Film Melodrama brings forth pioneering French and Englishspeaking approaches from internationally known experts as well as by young researchers, aiming to broaden the research area through new historical and aesthetic perspectives. Indeed, film melodrama has too often been under-estimated, most surveys having essentially focused on the audience's emotions and on excessive representations, often neglecting the complexities of the "melodramatic mode". More than ever, melodrama as film genre requires a comprehensive, multi-layered re-appraisal which includes references to the genre at work on television, animation and the internet..