Outgrowing Melodrama: On Todd Haynes’s “May December”
Victoria Wiet looks at “May December” as a melodrama that exceeds the genre’s ideological limits and binaries.
Victoria Wiet is an assistant professor of English at DePauw University whose essays and reviews have appeared in Public Books, Politics/Letters, v21 Collective, Nineteenth-Century Literature, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book about how the theater influenced Victorian novels’ representation of sexual diversity.
Victoria Wiet looks at “May December” as a melodrama that exceeds the genre’s ideological limits and binaries.