Word: melodramaâ
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...dramatization that set off this vast craving for the book and that reached so deeply into Americans' minds. Part of its success may have come from the use of familiar techniques of TV melodrama???with a twist: the heroes and heroines were black. Said black Historian Benjamin Quarles of Morgan State College in Maryland: "There was the threat of violence, the appeal of sex, all building up to a wonderful climax?all the things that make for good television...
...newly married, should go off and fight in it?fight in this queer place, France, that she thought of as a few miles away from Asheville. But he goes?and is killed. So far, the tragedy is moving, individual and complete. And then comes an act of creaky melodrama???the son of old Pappy Cagle's slayer (a former revenooer) turns up as a deserter from the army?the Widow is about to kill him?business of spiritualistic music offstage?business of the deserter boasting patriotism?and the Widow drops the gun?convinced by special wireless from the lands...
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