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melodrama: a standalone construct

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a mode of heightened expression and stark moral polarization that seeks to make ethical forces visible in ordinary life.

In genre studies, melodrama refers to a mode of heightened expression and stark moral polarization that seeks to make ethical forces visible in ordinary life. This meaning comes from Brooks (1976) in The melodramatic imagination.[1]

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  1. Brooks, P. (1976). The melodramatic imagination. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231060066

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