...Elana Levine By the early 1980s a number of feminist film scholars had taken up this interest, which had further morphed into a focus on the “maternal melodrama” or, alternately, the “woman's film,” categories employed to designate those classical Hollywood films best suited to an examination...

...Meredith Slifkin This article places existing discourses on Egyptian cinema, revolution, and global feminism in conversation with theories of film melodrama. The text examines the tradition of Egyptian melodrama as a site for analogizing women's liberation with national modernization in the wake...

... librettist during the first Peronist era (1946–55), was best known for penning erotically charged melodramas aimed at mostly female audiences. In this drama, Cascallar makes particular use of sound and voice as dramatic devices and as a means to produce dramas that articulate women's desires—sexual desire...