Global Melodrama: Nation, Body, and History in Contemporary Film (Global Cinema)

Global Melodrama is the first booklength work to investigate melodrama in a specifically twenty-first century setting across regional and national boundaries, analyzing film texts from a variety of national contexts in the wake of globalization. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Global Melodrama....Pages 1-24 Biopolitical Embodiments: Talk to Her and The Skin I Live In....Pages 25-52 Costume Changes, Overlapping Histories: In the Mood for Love and 2046....Pages 53-78 Border-Crossing the Global Imaginary: The Bubble and Babel....Pages 79-109 Melodrama and Global Neorealism: Colossal Youth and The World....Pages 111-142 Conclusion: Of Gravity and Tears....Pages 143-148 Back Matter....Pages 149-189 Cover 1 Series 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 List of Figures 8 Acknowledgments 10 Introduction: Global Melodrama 13 1 Biopolitical Embodiments: Talk to Her and The Skin I Live In 37 2 Costume Changes, Overlapping Histories: In the Mood forLove and 2046 65 3 Border-Crossing the Global Imaginary: The Bubbleand Babel 91 4 Melodrama and Global Neorealism: Colossal Youth and TheWorld 122 Conclusion: Of Gravity and Tears 154 Notes 160 Bibliography 184 Index 191