Emanuel Levy
Cinema 24/7
Most critics and viewers have regarded Hollywood melodrama as a femme-centric genre.
But a closer look reveals that there are at three types of melodramas:
Male-Centric
Rebel Without a Cause
East of Eden
Not as a Stranger
Some Came Running
Female-Centric
Magnificent Obsession (1934, 1954)
All That Heaven Allows
Picnic
Peyton Place
Family-Centric (Dynasty at Center)
Giant
Written on the Wind
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Long Hot Summer
God’s Little Acre
Movie Genres: Melodrama–Genre and Gender
Most critics and viewers have regarded Hollywood melodrama as a femme-centric genre.
But a closer look reveals that there are at three types of melodramas:
Male-Centric
Rebel Without a Cause
East of Eden
Not as a Stranger
Some Came Running
Female-Centric
Magnificent Obsession (1934, 1954)
All That Heaven Allows
Picnic
Peyton Place
Family-Centric (Dynasty at Center)
Giant
Written on the Wind
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Long Hot Summer
God’s Little Acre