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Private Fears in Public Places: Network Narrative and the Post-Smart American Melodrama

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by Lindsay Peters

Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies (28 October 2008)

“A comparative analysis of Crash, Babel, & Syriana as contemporary political network narratives in dialogue with the properties of classical melodrama and Jeffrey Sconce’s concept of the ‘smart’ film which grew out of the American independent filmmaking trend of the 1990s.”

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