The Bureau of Melodramatic Research

(BMR) is a dependent institution founded in 2009 by Irina Gheorghe and Alina Popa (1982-2019) to investigate the role of emotions in contemporary politics and the new economy. BMR investigates the way in which key elements of melodrama are currently at work in the public space. It adopts a melodramatic methodology called melo-critique. BMR projects include a self-help guide for public crying, a safety training for the new office work, a cooking show using love and gold as central ingredients, and a weather forecast camouflaged as a melodrama scene in contemporary industrial Romania.