Abstract
Melodrama’s adaptability is a direct cause of the way in which it can also be transmedial, transgenre and transnational, finding new ways of expression outside of the classic confinements of Hollywood’s excesses. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Manbiki kazok, also known as Shoplifters, is an example of a film that belongs to the melodrama category, but that explores the pathos and feeling that are characteristic of the genre in a way that not only is it not divorced of the political but contains within itself a fierce rebuke of the pressures of a capitalist society that underlines its emotional burden.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 132-135 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Family
- Melodrama
- Political
- Society