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Title: "All our lives we'd looked out for each other the way that motherless children tend to do": King Lear as Melodrama
Contributor(s): Griggs, Yvonne  (author)
Publication Date: 2007
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13620
Abstract: Written by Laura Jones, an adept and prolific adapter of literary texts to screen, 'A Thousand Acres' (1997) presents Jane Smiley's revisionist version of Shakespeare's 'King Lear' within the cinematic conventions of the melodrama, Whether we view Smiley's novel or Shakespeare's play as the resultant film's 'originary' source, its affiliation with the genre of melodrama is indisputable; the tagline, "Best friends. Bitter rivals. Sisters," foregrounds the importance of its female protagonists within the context of "family," and precipitates emotional excess.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Literature Film Quarterly, 35(2), p. 101-107
Publisher: Salisbury State University
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 0090-4260
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200104 Media Studies
200101 Communication Studies
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950204 The Media
950205 Visual Communication
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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