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Introduction to Melodrama

Introduction to Melodrama. What is Melodrama. The word " melodrama " comes from "melos", the Greek word for song, combined with "drama". Music is used to increase the emotional response or to suggest characters. 

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Introduction to Melodrama

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  1. Introduction to Melodrama

  2. What is Melodrama • The word "melodrama" comes from "melos", the Greek word for song, combined with "drama". • Music is used to increase the emotional response or to suggest characters.  • Essentially, a villain poses a threat, the hero escapes the threat (or rescues the heroine) and there is a happy ending.  

  3. CHARACTERISTICS • Clear distinctions between good and evil. • The forces of good always won at the end of the play. • It emphasized the story rather than the characters. • Music was used to enhance the story (through emotions) and to represent characters.

  4. Issues melodrama • Type of melodrama in which current events are given a dramatic treatment, hoping to use some recent crime or controversy as a way to draw an emotional response from the viewer.

  5. Action melodrama • Another type of melodrama that is particularly big in the action Hollywood film blockbuster. • An athletic action hero is pitted against an evil villain, and through a series of fights, car chases, love scenes and splatter, the hero overcomes the villain and restores the balance of good in the universe

  6. What melodramatic elements are there in Blood Brothers

  7. At the end of a conventional melodrama, there is a sense of that justice has be done. Does this hold true for the ending of Blood Brothers?

  8. Acknowledgements • http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:qSEyMkl4ceoJ:www.graves.k12.ky.us/schools/GCMS/bwalker/MELODRAMA.ppt+powerpoint+on+melodrama&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

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