melodrama
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Melodrama doesn’t exactly have the most sterling reputation for discerning cinema viewers.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
Or as Sarah Arnold, the author of “Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama and Motherhood,” put it, “The ‘leaking’ body lacks boundaries, it is literally fluid and in flux.”
From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2023
Melodrama and over-the-top stories gave way to more intentional filmmaking that came closer to the refinement of Hollywood movies.
From The Verge • Aug. 13, 2021
Melodrama and Historian are close enough in sensibilities and structural intricacies that they could easily swap titles, though nearly as far apart musically as their home bases in New Zealand and Virginia.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2018
Melodrama, a play consisting of sensational incidents, and arranged to produce striking effects.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
Vocabulary lists containing melodrama
Drama Terminology
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Literary Genres - Advanced
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