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What are two types of american melodramas?
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heroic melodrama
moral reform melodrama |
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mostly male audiences
violence and action noble hero vs corrupt society |
heroic melodrama (1830's)
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female audiences welcome
slavery, alcohol, and prostitution consequences or vices celebrating domesticity |
moral reform melodrama
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what type of technology was used in melodrama?
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gas lighting (1820)
more upstage lighting fire lightening electricity (1880) brighter lights treadmills - passage of time moving panoramas |
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What is a type of moral reform melodrama?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (adapt of harriet beecher stowe - 1857)
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what were significant things about uncle tom's cabin?
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novel, abolitionist, popular
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what was the stage version in uncle tom's cabin?
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strong oppositional views, stereotypes, and dances
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u.s. 1800s
moral lessons virtuous lessons poetic justice (what goes around comes around) appeal to sentiments appeal to group identity local color and characters fast paced, episodic plot spectacle music |
melodrama
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What's a stereotypical example of a contemporary legacy melodrama?
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day time soap operas
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what are the tree contemporary legacy melodrama?
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day time soap operas, us politics and news, minicase study: grey's anatomy
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