On the Verge of Tears:
Reflections on Crying
An In-Development Collection
Michele Byers and David Lavery, Editors
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David Lavery (Brunel University)—Introduction: The Crying Game Brief Tears (I): Paul Levinson (Fordham U)—Coleridge’s Tears—How the Poet Explained our Crying at Television Shows and Movies in 1817 Brief Tears (II): Will Brooker (Kingston U)—Gin Talking CRYING AT: Music and Art Bruce B. Janz (U Central Florida)—The Water is Wide: Risking Tears in the Met, and Elsewhere Alina Gharabegian (CUNY)—El Sentimiento Triste Sophie Mayer—Cry Me a River Brief Tears (III): Stephen Newton (William Patterson U)—TBA CRYING AT: The Movies Lance Duerfahrd (Purdue U)—Afterthoughts on Disability: Crying at William Wyler’s Best Years of our Lives Johnson Cheu (Michigan State U)—Let’s Go Swimming: (Not) Crying at the Movies Douglas L. Howard (Suffolk County C C)—A Tale of Two Labyrinths: The Emotional Experience of Pan’s Labyrinth Kylo-Patrick R. Hart (Plymouth State U)—Philadelphia, Mainstream Cinema-Inspired Tears, and the Social Re-Construction of the AIDS Pandemic Steven Peacock (U of Hertfordshire)—Lynch's Women in Tears Brief Tears (IV): Laura Nathan (SUNY at Buffalo)—Mirrors |
CRYING AT: Television and Popular Culture Cynthea Masson (Malaspina University-College)—“It’s a Thing We Do”: Crying with Buffy and Angel Heather Urbanski (Lehigh U)—Crying at the “Slick” Stuff: The Development of a Pop Culture Scholar Christopher Kocela (Georgia State U.)—Good Grief, Intimate Strangers, and The Office: Tearful Laughter in the Postdocumentary Age Brennan Thomas (Georgia Southwestern University)—Death of an Icon, Wrath of a Fan Joseph S. Walker—Broken (by) Blossom Brief Tears (V): Marni Stanley—For Crying Out Loud CRYING AT: Literature and Drama Cecillia Feilla (Marymount Manhattan)—I Weep therefore I Am: The Eighteenth-Century Invention of the Tearjerker D. C. Jellerson (Vanderbilt U)—Tears and Interpretation in Titus Andronicus Brief Tears (VI): Brett McCracken (UCLA)—The Aesthetic Appeal of Absence CRYING AT: The Real World Jimmy Dean Smith (Union College [KY])—Cracking Michele Byers (St. Mary’s U)—Waiting for the End of the World: Crying at Disaster after “9/11” Bibliography Filmography Index |