Nostalgia and Revisionism Intertwined: Todd Haynes's Reworking of the Melodrama Genre in Far From Heaven, Mildred Pierce, and Carol.
- Campion, Sarah (2018)
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Accès libre
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- Nostalgia and Revisionism Intertwined: Todd Haynes's Reworking of the Melodrama Genre in Far From Heaven, Mildred Pierce, and Carol.
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- octobre 2018
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- cinéma
- hollywood
- todd haynes
- carol
- mildred pierce
- far from heaven
- nostalgie
- révisionnisme
- mélodrame
- genre
- homosexualité
- féminisme
- études sur le genre
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- cinema
- film studies
- melodrama
- revisionism
- nostalgia film
- carol
- mildred pierce
- far from heaven
- todd haynes
- homosexuality
- feminism
- film genre
- queer studies
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- With this these, I wish to make sense of the impact of nostalgia and revisionism in Haynes's works. More particularly, I wish to show how these two apparently paradoxical concepts actually work together in Haynes's imitation and reworking of the melodrama genre. Nostalgia, which by definition draws an inevitable link between past and present, has the potential to create space for revisionism. Revisionism can only work if we make elements of the past interact with our present since it aims at showing what was not shown and is seldom discussed but nevertheless existed. It naturally questions our perception of the past, attempts to uncover the hidden social truths through stories, which undoubtedly existed but were to remain invisible.
Citation bibliographique
Campion, Sarah (2018), Nostalgia and Revisionism Intertwined: Todd Haynes's Reworking of the Melodrama Genre in Far From Heaven, Mildred Pierce, and Carol. [Mémoire]