Melodrama (film genre)
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In film studies and criticism, melodrama may variously refer to a genre, mode, style or sensibility characterized by its emphasis on intense and exaggerated emotions and heightened dramatic situations
Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman in All That Heaven Allows (1955) by Douglas Sirk, a paradigmatic melodrama film.
Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945), one of the few films called a "melodrama" in its pre-1970s and post-1970s conception.
The standard definition of melodrama as a film genre was born out of a reappraisal of director Douglas Sirk, who was recognized as the major exponent of the style.
Karin Dicker, Juanita Moore, Terry Burnham and Lana Turner in Sirk's Imitation of Life (1959), an archetypal melodrama in which the female protagonist suffers recurring crises stemming from repressive societal expectations.
Camp (style)
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Camp is an aesthetic and sensibility that regards something as appealing or amusing because of its heightened level of artifice, affectation and exaggeration, especially when there is also a playful o
Carmen Miranda in the trailer for The Gang's All Here (1943)
Clothing designs from Camp: Notes on Fashion
Several melodrama films, like Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind (1956), have acquired cult status because of their unintentional camp content.
Cher at Farewell Tour