Dans une confrontation inedite des approches francophones et anglo-saxonnes signees par des experts internationalement reconnus aussi bien que par de jeunes chercheurs, Le melodrame filmique revisite propose d'ouvrir le champ d'etudes vers de nouvelles perspectives historiques et esthetiques. En effet, le melodrame souffre, depuis ses debuts cinematographiques, d'une exploitation pejorative qui restreint le " mode melodramatique " a la manipulation des emotions du public et a une representation excessive sur le plan esthetique. Minimise, expedie, ce genre merite pourtant d'etre enfin l'objet d'une revalorisation a travers des approaches innovantes et un corpus elargi a la television, l'animation et l'internet.
Revisiting Film Melodrama brings forth pioneering French and English-speaking approaches from internationally known experts as well as by young researchers, aiming to broaden the research area through new historical and aesthetic perspectives. Indeed, film melodrama has too often been under-estimated, most surveys having essentially focused on the audience's emotions and on excessive representations, often neglecting the complexities of the "melodramatic mode". More than ever, melodrama as film genre requires a comprehensive, multi-layered re-appraisal which includes references to the genre at work on television, animation and the internet.