Melodrama : an aesthetics of impossibility /
Jonathan Goldberg.
- Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
- xvi, 205 pages ;
"A series edited by Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
Agency and identity: the melodram in Beethoven's Fidelio -- Identity and identification: Sirk, Fassbinder, Haynes -- The art of murder : Hitchcock and Highsmith -- Wildean aesthetics: from "Paul's case's" to Lucy Gayheart.