How to pronounce“melodramas”in English

Dog melodramas, of course, but also equestrian dramas, with horses running on treadmills, and nautical dramas and battle dramas and a whole subgenre devoted to grave-digging.

They churned out low-budget melodramas, gritty gangster movies like The Public Enemy with James Cagney, and musicals set in the Depression like Footlight Parade, with James Cagney.

Wong is a known fan of film noir and melodramas from Hollywood’s Golden Age, like Douglas Sirk’s All that Heaven Allows.

It was a very necessary corrective to all of those decades of melodramas, minstrelsy, and blackface.

and eventually a playwright he collaborated with David Belasco on a few melodramas and then decided that maybe he should try to find a kind of

I mean you have to maybe go back to 1920s, the silent melodramas, where people would hiss the villain when he would tie the heroine to a railroad

The style became more domestic in the 1820s and 1830s when there was a craze for true-crime melodramas.