Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts (Paperback)

Introduction
1. Meanings of Modernity
2. Meanings of Melodrama
3. Sensationalism and the World of Urban Modernity
4. Making Sense of the Modernity Thesis
5. Melodrama and the Consequences of Capitalism
6. Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodrama: Boom and Bust
7. "Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art!'': Early Film Melodrama
8. Power and Peril in the Serial-Queen Melodrama
9. Marketing Melodrama: Serials and Intertextuality
Conclusion