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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Brings Melodrama and Sigourney Weaver as a Flower-obsessed Matriarch to Streaming,
single work
review
— Review of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart 2023 series - publisher film/TV ;'In Melodrama Revised, an essay from 1998, film theorist Linda Williams suggests melodrama situates the audience in a direct empathetic relationship with a victim, so we emotionally experience the victim’s subjugation and then triumph with their overcoming. Oscillating between pathos and action, this is the dominant mode of popular American cinema (and culture more broadly).' (Introduction)
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New Aussie Musical Bloom Misses an Opportunity to Interrogate the Gaps in Aged Care – and in Our Social Fabric,
single work
review
— Review of Bloom 2023 single work musical theatre ;'Bloom, the new Australian musical produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company, is proudly billed by the company as born and bred right here in Melbourne/Naarm.' (Introduction)
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In Restless Dolly Maunder, Kate Grenville Recreates the Enterprising Life of an Obscure Historical Figure,
single work
review
— Review of Restless Dolly Maunder 2023 single work novel ;'Dolly Maunder, born in 1881, is the sixth of seven children of a sheep-farming family outside Tamworth in northern New South Wales. Their lives are a relentless round of hard work, indoors and out, relieved only a by few brief years at the local one-teacher school.' (Introduction)
