1) Action film 2) Comedy 3) Common soap ingredient 4) Emotional show 5) Extravagantly theatrical play 6) Film genre 7) French word used in English 8) Ham production 9) Many a soap opera 10) Movie serial genre 11) Overwrought behavior 12) Sensational story 13) Sentimental movie 14) Silents genre 15) Soap ingredient
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1) Chiller 2) Tearjerker 3) Melodramma
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Image:Perilsofpauline.jpg|thumb|upright||Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914), a classic melodramatic film series A melodrama is a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions, often with strongly stereotyped characters. Language, behaviour, or events which resemble melodramas are also called melodramati...
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• (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompan...
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The emphasis of melodramatic presentations is on human emotion, illness and physical hardship. Often the melodrama is critical of social and political climates and mores but can include domestic portrayals which are romanticized. Lucid distinctions exist between good and evil, hero and villain, right and wrong, and rule oriented society. The form o...
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in Western theatre, sentimental drama with an improbable plot that concerns the vicissitudes suffered by the virtuous at the hands of the villainous ... [5 related articles]
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a play with extravagant theatricality, superficial characterization, and predominance of plot and physical action. Example: 'The Pedestrian,' a melodrama by Ray Bradbury, 2m.
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Play or film with romantic and sensational plot elements, often concerned with crime, vice, or catastrophe. Originally a melodrama was a play with an accompaniment of music contributing to the...
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Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while...
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A dramatic form characterized by excessive sentiment, exaggerated emotion, sensational and thrilling
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Mel`o·dra'ma noun [ French
mélodrame , from Greek
me`los song +
dra^ma drama.] Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompani...
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A play or story in which the characters´ feelings are extremely overdone in order to render the effect more exciting.
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A melodrama was originally and strictly, a species of drama in which the declamation of certain passages was interrupted by music, but since the 19th century the term has come to designate a romantic play or film, generally of a serious character, in which effect is sought by startling incidents, striking situations, and exaggerated sentiment, aide...
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A form of drama relying on an unrealistic, exaggerated style, often involving heightened emotion. Melodrama is often despised by critics for its deliberate avoidance of realism, but it can be immensely popular - Titanic (1997), for instance, is pure melodrama, and the so-called Gainsborough melodramas were amongst British cinema's biggest box-offic...
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n] - an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
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melodrama A dramatic presentation marked by heavy use of suspense, sensational episodes, romantic sentiment, and a conventionally happy ending.
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a style of play, which originated in the 19th century, relying heavily on sensationalism and sentimentality. Melodramas tend to feature action more than motivation, stock characters, and a strict view of morality in which good triumphs over evil.
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A dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions, often with stereotyped characters. Celebrates virtue above all. Current Hollywood cinema loves Melodrama.
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noun an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
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Originally a play with music (melos means music in Greek), this term has come to refer to works which make a strong appeal to the emotions through exaggerated characters and situations. The virginal heroine and the mustachioed villain were stock characters in Victorian melodrama. See also sentimentality.
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