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  • Melodrama, Tears, and Life of Oharu

    Melodrama, Tears, and Life of Oharu

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    FEATURE. Why do we find melodramas moving? How do melodramas make us cry? Casting a close look at Kenji Mizoguchi’s Life of Oharu (1952) and a glance at other classic melodramas, Jonathan Frome discusses the validity of the theory of agnition as it is presented in Steve Neale’s well-known article “Melodrama and Tears”.