On the Verge of Tears:

Reflections on Crying

An In-Development Collection

Michele Byers and David Lavery, Editors

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 MayerCry 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. WalkerBroken (by) Blossom

Brief Tears (V): Marni StanleyFor 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