Through original analysis of three digital-age, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner's Mad Men, Lars von Trier's Melancholia and Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce), Living Screens explores the "plasticity" of our current situation in which we live with screens that melodramatically touch our lives.

Acknowledgments / Chapter 1: Living Screens: Introduction / 2. Mad Men (2007-2015): Melodrama and Metamorphosis / 3. Turned Back: Advertising, Televisual Melodrama and Metamorphosis in Mad Men (2007-2015) / 4. Earth-Object: Melodrama and Plasticity in Lars von Trier's Melancholia (2011) / 5. Melodrama and Plasticity in Todd Haynes' Mildred Pierce (2011) / Bibliography / Index

Monique Rooney is a Lecturer at the School of Cultural Inquiry at the Australian National University.