Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema

Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art CinemaThis book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.

While the subject’s theoretical and empirical dimensions have usually been studied separately

this special issue of Alif addresses this problem theoretically and empirically

the Englishman Horace Holly and his adopted son Leo Vincey return home from their African journey

"A poignant

from maternal practices and thinking-through processes of appropriation

Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain

poetic space

in the 1920s and '30s

African American women have consistently employed oral traditions not only to relate the pain and degradation of slavery

The Gift of Truth

which refers here to being faced with two or more options

Acclaimed story teller Laura Simms gives us a rich tapestry of tales that unveil the secrets of love in all of its forms