Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility

Author/Contributor(s):	Goldberg, Jonathan
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	08/12/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Offering a new queer theorization of melodrama, Jonathan Goldberg explores the ways melodramatic film and literature provide an aesthetics of impossibility and how melodrama as a whole provides queer ways to promote identifications that exceed the bounds of the identity categories that regulate and constrain social life.