Talk: Romantic Melodrama: Exploring Taboo and Pizzazz
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Part of Too Much: Melodrama on Film
Book tickets for the discussed films All That Heaven Allows and Far From Heaven
Join Lisa Holloway – Film Studies Lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA Farnham) and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Sussex – for an exploration of two iconic romantic melodramas.
Douglas Sirk's 1955 classic All That Heaven Allows and Todd Haynes' 2002 homage Far From Heaven both revel in visual excess while confronting the perils and pleasures of forbidden love.
Haynes honours Sirk's emotional depth and stylistic flair, yet dares to take the story into territories that mid-century Hollywood could not – or would not – explore ...