Image: Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (dir. D. W. Griffiths, 1919) & Kirsten Dunst in Melancholia (dir. Lars Von Trier, 2011)
UPDATED 2/20/16: View symposium video: Part 1, Part 2
10:00am-12:30pm
The Elephant of Melodrama
Linda Williams, University of California, Berkeley
Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University
1:30pm-4:00pm
Melodrama and Realism in the Urban Cinema of Ramin Bahrani
Amy Corbin, Muhlenberg College
Earth-Object: Melodrama, Plasticity and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia
Monique Rooney, Australian National University