Left melodrama

Agamben, G. (1998) Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Translated by D. Heller-Roazen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Agamben, G. (2005) States of Exception, Translated by K. Attell. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Anker, E. (2005) Villains, victims and heroes: Melodrama, media and 9/11. Journal of Communication 88 (1): 22–37.

Benjamin, W. (2003) The Origin of German Tragic Drama, Translated by J. Osborne. London: Verso.

Benjamin, W. (2005) Left-wing melancholy. In: M. Jennings, H. Eiland and G. Smith (eds.), Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Vol. 2., pt. 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bennett, J. and Shapiro, M. (eds.) (2002) Introduction. The Politics of Moralizing. London: Routledge.

Borradori, G. (2004) Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. New York: Columbia University Press.

Brenkman, J. (2007) Cultural Contradictions of Democracy: Political Thought since September 11. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Brennan, T. (2005) Wars of Position: Cultural Politics of Left and Right. New York: Columbia University Press.

Brooks, P. (1995) The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama and the Mode of Excess. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Brown, W. (1999) Resisting left melancholy. Boundary 2 26 (3): 19–27.

Brown, W. (2001) Politics Out of History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Buckley, M. (2006) Tragedy Walks the Streets: The French Revolution in the Making of Modern Drama. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Butler, J. (1997) The Psychic Life of Power: Essays in Subjection. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Butler, J. (2004) Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso.

Carver, T. (1999) The Engels-Marx question. In: M. Steger and T. Carver (eds.), Engels after Marx. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Carver, T. (2006) Less than full Marx. Political Theory 34 (3): 351–356.

Coles, R. (2005) Beyond Gated Politics: Reflections on the Possibility of Democracy. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Connolly, W.E. (1995) The Ethos of Pluralization. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Dean, J. (2009) Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Elsaesser, T. (1987) Tales of sound and fury: Observations of the family melodrama. In: C. Gledhill (ed.), Home is Where the Heart is: Melodrama and the Woman's Film. London: British Film Institute.

Freud, S. (1959) Mourning and Melancholia [1917]. In: J. Strachey (ed.), Collected Papers, Vol. 4. Translated by J. Riviere. New York: Basic Books.

Freud, S. (1990) Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego 1922, Translated by J. Strachey. New York: W.W. Norton.

Gaines, J. (1996) The Melos of Marxist theory. In: D.E. James and R. Berg (eds.), The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Gerould, D. (1994) Melodrama and revolution. In: J. Bratton, J. Cook and C. Gledhill (eds.), Melodrama: Stage, Picture, Screen. London: British Film Institute.

Gilroy, P. (2004) Postcolonial Melancholia. New York: Columbia University Press.

Gledhill, C. (ed.) (1987) Introduction. Home is Where the Heart is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman's Film. London: British Film Institute.

Hall, S. (1988) Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and Crisis of the Left. London: Verso.

Hardt, M. and Negri, A. (2001) Empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hardt, M. and Negri, A. (2004) Multitude. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Johnston, S. (2007) The Truth about Patriotism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Jones, K.B. (2008) Occupying Hannah. Unpublished paper presented to the 2008 Western Political Science Association Feminist Theory Working Group.

Kaufman-Osborn, T. (2008) We are all torturers now: Accountability after Abu-Ghraib. Theory and Event 11 (2).

Löwith, K. (1993) Max Weber and Karl Marx. London: Routledge.

Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1978) The manifesto of the communist party. In: R. Tucker (ed.), The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton.

Mulvey, L. (2009) Visual and Other Pleasures. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Neale, S. (1993) Melo talk: On the meaning and use of the term ‘melodrama’ in the American trade press. The Velvet Light Trap 32: 66–89.

Nealon, C. (2009) Reading on the left. Representations 108: 22–50.

Pryzbos, J. and Gerould, D. (1980) Melodrama in the Soviet theater. In: D. Geroud (ed.), Melodrama. New York: New York Literary Forum 7.

Puar, J. (2007) Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Rousseau, J.J. (1990) Lettre a M. Burney, sur la musique, avec fragments d’ Observations sur Alceste [1774]. In: R. Masters (ed.), Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 7. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, pp. 491–505.

Schmitt, C. (1996) The Concept of the Political, Translated by G. Schwab. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Sypher, W. (1948) The aesthetic of revolution: The Marxist melodrama. Kenyon Review 10 (3): 431–441.

Thiem, A. (2008) Unbecoming Subjects. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press.

Williams, L. (1998) Melodrama revised. In: N. Browne (ed.), Refiguring Film Genres. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Williams, L. (2001) Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to OJ Simpson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Wolin, S. (2004) Politics and Vision. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Wolin, S. (2008) Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Žižek, S. (2001) Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri rewritten the communist manifesto for the twenty-first century? Rethinking Marxism 13 (3–4): 190–198.