El melodrama

Synopsis of El melodrama

«El melodrama» is Guillermo Balmori's essay on the film genre, published by Ediciones JC in paperback (302 pages, in Spanish).

The work studies film melodrama, focusing on its golden age in Hollywood and the genre's most representative films. It explains its ornate and artificial aesthetic, as well as the shift in appreciation that has led a once-disdained style to exert a strong fascination among intellectuals and the general public.

Published in 2005, it belongs to the Géneros collection, includes a prologue by Eduardo Torres-Dulce, and contains color photographs.

For cinephiles and readers interested in the history and aesthetics of classic Hollywood cinema.