Melodrama, a combination of drama and melos (music), literally means "play with music." The themes of dramas, the oldest literary and stage art form, were exaggerated within melodramas,

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The Black Duckling ... In the darkness of the city, one light refuses to be extinguished. ... Part fantasy, part burlesque show, part macabre melodrama.

Michael Haneke's Benny's Video shows the emotional detachment and unwillingness to psychologize seen in the films of Robert Bresson. ... Revising and making new the bourgeois melodrama of an earlier era,

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