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Article: Reel Italian: melodrama, Magnani, and alternative subjects in The Rose Tattoo.(Anna Magnani)(Critical essay)
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- Literature-Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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As a playwright and iconic literary figure of the twentieth century, Tennessee Williams consistently garners academic attention. Yet scholarship exploring Williams's work within melodrama--not to mention that genre's frequently invoked subject matter, motherhood--remains scarce, with absences unavoidably affecting ways maternity is understood in Williams's work. An early critical and commercial success, his autobiographical The Glass Menagerie gave audiences one of the most memorable, if unlikable constructions of motherhood to inhabit stage or screen. As with similar monster-mother constructs, Amanda Wingfield is marked by a domineering intrusiveness into her unhappy ...
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