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Sirk and Fassbinder: All That Is Allowed Genre films were created in the golden age of Hollywood as a way to pre-sell movies. The audience knew what to expect when they went to see a musical, a western or a melodrama because of the established genre archetypes. The melodrama as a film genre dates back to the inception of those genres created by Hollywood. In the forties and fifties the melodrama was referred to as women's films or weepies. Today melodramas are often referred to as a 'chick-flicks' for the same reason - because they are usually a romantic tragedy aimed at female viewers. Since Hollywood targets it's blockbuster pictures at young men, the melodrama is often considered the red-headed step-child genre. Thomas Schatz describes the Melodrama as: "applied to popular romances that depicted a virtuous individual (usually a woman) or couple (usually lovers) victimized by repressive and inequitable social circumstances, particularly...

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