附註:Filmography: page 181.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-193) and index.
Introduction: The Many Faces of Melodrama -- 1. The "Progressive" Auteur, Melodrama, and Canonicity -- 2. Selling Melodrama: Sex, Affluence, and Written on the Wind -- 3. Tastemaking: Reviews, Popular Canons, and Soap Operas -- 4. Star Gossip: Rock Hudson and the Burdens of Masculinity -- 5. Mass Camp and the Old Hollywood Melodrama Today -- Conclusion: Cinema, Ideology, History.
