In this analytical essay, you will compare and contrast the melodrama genre/mode within two-three films united either by auteurism, story, period, or national cinema (choose only one of these other categories). You will choose two-three melodrama films to focus on (you must find these films on your own)
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according to one of these categories. You will compare and contrast those two-three films in order to answer your research question, which should address the intersection of the two methods of classification in the three films. If melodrama and the other classification method is not in your research question, youre on the wrong track. Choose one of the following options.
I choose option number two:
2: Analysis of genre and story
For this option, you may analyze the differences in style, direction, mise-en-scne, acting, etc. in two different adaptations of the same script or story. Your focus should be on the evolution of the melodrama genre/mode through the two-three films.
The Housemaid (1960 & 2010)
