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Is Melodrama the Dominant Medium of American Television?

I think melodrama generally is the small form right that it has this you know action situation action oh this is interesting so if melodrama Linda Williams argues quite convincingly that the dominant mode of particularly American television is it's serial melodrama. I was thinking of I've written on the wind the Cirque one which starts with this individual act of Kyle driving his car really fast and then and then he comes and kills someone we don't know who it is or someone is killed he doesn't kill someone I just would have misled you about that film.

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