Publication: An American odyssey of suffering: aesthetic strategies in Steve McQueen’s '12 Years a Slave'
An American odyssey of suffering: aesthetic strategies in Steve McQueen’s '12 Years a Slave'
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Loren, S. (2014). An American odyssey of suffering: aesthetic strategies in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave.” Anglia : Journal of English Philology, 132(2), 336–351. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2014-0033
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In her seminal study on racial melodrama, Linda Williams suggested that “variations of the melodrama of black and white continue to be necessary to the way mass American culture ‘talks to itself’ about race” (2001: 301), with cinema as a means for cultures to reflect on unresolved social tensions through fictional forms. Williams’s choice of phraseology is reflexive of the theory informing her book: melodrama, a protean meta-genre and cultural mode, mobilizes cinematic aesthetic hyperbole and filmic realism, seeking to make an unspeak
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- Loren, Scott
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Loren, S. (2014). An American odyssey of suffering: aesthetic strategies in Steve McQueen’s “12 Years a Slave.” Anglia : Journal of English Philology, 132(2), 336–351. https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2014-0033
