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Homework Viewing Pulp Fiction                             Dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994                         

THIS ONE WOULD BE THE MAIN READING: Thomas Elsaesser, " Tales of Sound and Fury, " M. Landis (ed),  Imitiations of Life: Explorations of Melodrama  (Ohio: Wayne State UP, 1991) 44-79. 2 essays related to this one Hansen, Miriam Bratu. “Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons: Shanghai Silent Film as Vernacular Modernism,”  Film Quarterly  54:1 (2000): 10-22. [click  HERE ] Elsaesser, T. (2014). From Dysfunctional Families to Productive Pathologies : Melodrama Trauma Mind-Games.  Journal of the Moving Image , 26-45. Brooks, P. (1995). ‘the Melodramatic Imagination’.  The melodramatic imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess . Yale University Press.pp.1-23  [CLICK  HERE; note: the whole book is uploaded so you just turn need to read the required pages]