Melodrama & Modernity - Early Sensational Cinema & It's Contexts : Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1(16) Meanings of Modernity 17(20) Meanings of Melodrama 37(22) Sensationalism and the World of Urban Modernity 59(42) Making Sense of the Modernity Thesis 101(30) Melodrama and the Consequences of Capitalism 131(18) Ten-Twenty-Thirty Melodrama: Boom and Bust 149(40) ``Child of Commerce! Bastard of Art!'': Early Film Melodrama 189(32) Power and Peril in the Serial-Queen Melodrama 221(42) Marketing Melodrama: Serials and Intertextuality 263(26) Conclusion 289(8) Notes 297(34) Bibliography 331(26) Index of Names and Subjects 357(4) Index of Titles 361