Final paper

Final paper Discuss the development of melodrama in the cinema from ?The Birth of a Nation? into the mid-1930s. Analyze in specific terms and examples at least three films for your essay. You may discuss such elements as the narrative structures of melodrama, subjects, acting, the ideological burdens that melodramas carry, or filming style. If you don?t use Linda Williams?s definition and description of the workings of melodrama, or if you continue to think that melodrama is a genre, you?re dead in the water.