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- Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937) is the most well known and celebrated of the genre known as the ‘maternal melodrama.’
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Mar 18, 2016 · Stella Dallas (King Vidor, 1937) is the most well known and celebrated of the genre known as the ‘maternal melodrama.’ Stella Dallas (Barbara Stanwyck) is but one of many unsung female heroes who sacrifice, yet always prevail, in maternal melodramas such as Min and Bill (1930); The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931); Madame X (1937); and ...
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Stella Dallas is a 1937 American drama film based on Olive Higgins Prouty's 1923 novel of the same name. It was directed by King Vidor and stars Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, and Anne Shirley. At the 10th Academy Awards, Stanwyck and Shirley were nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, respectively. [3]
Dallas tells the story of a working-class woman who aspires that her daughter Laurel might gain acceptance in her father's upper-class milieu, only to discover that her own lack of pedigree threatens her child's social future. Stella chooses, therefore, to sever her relation.
Jul 10, 2019 · In her analysis of King Vidor’s 1937 film Stella Dallas, feminist film scholar Mary Ann Doane says that “the maternal melodrama is usually seen as the paradigmatic type of the woman’s film,” 1 and calls it that genre’s “exemplary film” 2.
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May 17, 2014 · Stella achieves upward social mobility through a respectable marriage to a wealthy man, which is the end goal of many films ( The Bride Wore Red comes to mind) but instead of ending on a kiss and a promise of happily ever after, Stella Dallas shows the aftermath of such a match.
Dec 12, 2013 · Melodrama is a genre that is popularly known to contain intense displays of emotion. Film scholars understand melodrama as signifying more than what our eyes may observe upon immediate encounter with the melodramatic production, especially when viewed through different theoretic lenses.
Oct 23, 2018 · Stella Dallas is a classic maternal melodrama played with a very straight face. Its ambivalences and contradictions are not cultivated with the intention of revealing the work of patriarchal ideology within it.
