Lexicon of Global Melodrama

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Content
Introduction
A Drunkard’s Reformation
Back to God’s Country
Blind Husbands
Applause
Pandora’s Box
The Blue Angel
Ganga Bruta
Masquerade in Vienna
Modern Times
Bewitching Kisses
Heimat
Gone with the Wind
Casablanca
Mashenka
Children of Paradise
Nosotros los pobres
Chains
Tokyo Story
House of Ricordi
The Night of the Hunter
All that Heaven Allows
The Word
Violent Playground
Hiroshima mon amour
Imitation of Life
Oyster Girl
A Patch of Blue
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Dark of the Sun
In the Heat of the Sun
Love Story
The Legend of the Red Lantern
Ariana
Insiang
The Smoking Fish
Amar Akbar Anthony
An Unmarried Woman
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Ticket of No Return
Babylon
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow
The Official Story
Where Is the Friend’s House?
Little Vera (
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdow
Coming Out
Living in Bondage
Farewell My Concubine
The Piano
Bombay
The Bridges of Madison County
Kikujiro
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Erin Brockovich
In the Mood for Love
Moulin Rouge!
Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Sad
Devdas
Destiny Has No Favorites
Osuofia in London
Monsieur Ibrahim
Brokeback Mountain
Rang De Basanti
’Imārat Ya’qūbīān
Lust, Caution
Shanghai Baby
Sleepwalking Land
The Blind Side
Invictus
The Secret in Their Eyes
Jaffa
Pumzi
Anchor Baby
Even the Rain
Melancholia
Laurence Anyways
The Cut
The Theory of Everything
Eye in the Sky
Masaan
The Salesman
Jackie
The Nest of the Turtledove
Cold War
Rafiki
Elevator Baby
The Invisible Life of Eur
Joker
Hamilton
No Hard Feelings/FUTUR DREI
Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors