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Melodramatist

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Mel`o`dram´a`tist
n.1.One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.


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The director is a mercurial talent whose previous films have included Velvet Goldmine, which was set in the glam rock era, and Far From Heaven, a homage to the great Hollywood melodramatist Douglas Sirk.
As Angel demonstrates, Ozon not only admires the classical cinema's great melodramatists, but also understands their integration of content and style.
His reflections on the huge popularity of Bierstadt and Harte in the 1860s and 1870s include discussion of each as a melodramatist, an important emphasis that it would have been interesting to see developed, informed by recent accounts of gender in melodrama, in the later analysis of 1950s Westerns, many of which reward examination in such terms.
 
 
 
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