Dossier on Melodrama.

The article presents a report on the weekend school on March 25-27, 1977 in London about the study of Hollywood melodrama and its place within ideology. According to the report, Hollywood melodrama can be read as an instance of revealed conflicting statements within bourgeois ideology. The introduction of the report also reveals that the terms and actions utilized during the weekend school reflected political and cultural preoccupations. On the other hand, the article also includes one of the papers prepared for the weekend and a note regarding the Freudian concept of family romance.