“I Saw a Different Life. I Can’t Stop Seeing It”: Perfectionist visions in Revolutionary Road
In this article, I claim that Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road (2008) is a recent version of the film genre that Stanley Cavell calls the “melodrama of the unknown woman”. Accordingly, my discussion focuses on two key elements of that identification: the film’s overriding dramatic and thematic emphasi...
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Edinburgh University Press
2021
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