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| What popular culture shows: |
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Shows the "Norms"
Shows tastes, fears, desires, prejudices of everyday culture
- discusses these more freely than Hi-brow art
cf: Scholars find this more fun to study because it shows how culture is |
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| What happened in 19th century USA that effects popular culture |
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Industrial revolution : urbanization & growth of working class
USA is trying to find its performance identity (not british plays anymore)
Westward expansion- indians
pre/post civil war- slavery
performance- not british troops anymore |
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melody-drama (music tells you how you should feel)
Started in France. Changed a lot in USA |
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simple + straight forward (good VS evil)
Sentement (characters + audience have strong feelings)
Suspense (music builds up to this) |
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stock characters (hero, villan, victim)
* Not psycologically complex (before realism) |
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Artificial story
overly dramatic acting
"Asides" *No 4th wall concept yet, so not breaking it |
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virtue- will be rewarded
vice- will be punished
poetic justice-what goes around comes around
* VS realism: (not always doing what is really right) |
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Active (hissing booing Yelling): Emotionallly and vocally involved
"Local coolor" (because melodrama moved from city to city)
Common values: reflects values audience already has (not challenging them) |
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KEY POINT IN MELODRAMA!!
used to make peoples' emotion height
cf: technological advances ex) tredmill, panorama |
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| Issues in melodrama representation |
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Gender: women is always dansle in distress or evil tempress
Race: Dark=evil, White=virtuous
(evil will be whatever people are anxious of in that time )
Native Americans: Noble savage or Wild Indian (needs to be rescued or put down)
Minstrelesy (white people playing slaves with black face paint) |
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| Melodrama concepts/ representation |
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spectacle
music
local color
race/ gender
stock characters
clear morality
poetic justice
sentement + suspense |
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Male Audience
violence + action
Noble Hero VS Corrupt society
ex) Indiana Jones (music helps us feel) |
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growth of female audiences
Saturday mativees (performance at a time women could come)
As education on how to act as women
Showing consequence of vice |
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| Moral reform melodrama: Abolition Melodrama |
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| focous on moral issues: Slavery |
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| Moral reform melodrama: Temperence Melodrama |
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| focus on moral issues: Alchohol (if you drink youre life will fall apart) |
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| white people playing black characters with black face paint |
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American racist performance 19th century
1st original AMERICAN performance
NOT african American |
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| white people with painted faces (burnt corck) |
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