Dear colleagues, Writer-director Todd Haynes has previously recounted how film scholar Pam Cook's 1978 foundational article "Duplicity in MILDRED PIERCE" informed his 2011 HBO miniseries adaptation of James M. Cain's novel (an effective remaking of Michael Curtiz' 1945 film). Now, in her new essay for the open access serial SEQUENCE (a REFRAME<http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/> publication), Cook turns her attention to Haynes' miniseries and its intertextual chain of makings and remakings, and explores, in particular, how we come to read it (or any other audiovisual artefact) as "maternal melodrama." Her essay is online here: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence2/archive/sequence-2-2/. Best wishes Dr <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediaandfilm/people/list/person/183852> <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediaandfilm/people/list/person/183852> Catherine Grant<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mediaandfilm/people/list/person/183852> REFRAME<http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/> Editor, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies School of Media, Film and Music University of Sussex Silverstone Building Falmer BN1 9RG E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> T: +44 1273 678876 Co-editor: [in]Transition<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/intransition/>: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies - a Cinema Journal<http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=cinema_journal>/MediaCommons<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/> Project Editor: Film Studies For Free<http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com> Guest Editor: Frames, Issue 1, July 2012: Film and Moving Image Studies Re-Born Digital?<http://framescinemajournal.com/?issue=issue1> ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu