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Gerould, Daniel C., ed. (1983) American Melodrama. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications.
Gledhill, Christine, ed. (1987) Home Is Where the Heart Is: Studies in Melodrama and the Woman’s Film. London: British Film Institute.
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Kaplan, E. Ann (1983) “Theories of Melodrama: A Feminist Perspective,” Women in Performance 1, pp. 40?48.
Klinger, Barbara (1994) Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films of Douglas Sirk. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Landy, Marcia, ed. (1991) Imitations of Life: A Reader on Film and Television Melodrama. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
Mason, Jeffrey D.(1993) Melodrama and the Myth of America, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
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岩本憲児編『日本映画史叢書：7 家族の肖像 - ホームドラマとメロドラマ』森話社, 2007
内野儀『メロドラマからパフォーマンスへ : 20世紀アメリカ演劇論』東京大学出版会、2001
斉藤綾子編『日本映画史叢書：6 映画と身体/性』森話社, 2006
御園生涼子『映画と国民国家 : 1930年代松竹メロドラマ映画』東京大学出版会, 2012.
河野 真理江「文芸メロドラマの映画史的位置 : 「よろめき」の系譜、商品化、批評的受容
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