Contemporary Musical Film

ISBN-13: 9781474431682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 208 str.

Kevin J. Donnelly; Beth Carroll

Spis treści

Reimagining the Contemporary Musical in the Twenty First Century; K. J. Donnelly and Beth Carroll

Part One: Original Musicals

• Aesthetic Absurdities in Takashi Miike’s The Happiness of the Katakuris; Craig Hatch
• Film and the Twilight of Rock (Rock is Dead and Film killed It) Nails in Rock’s Coffin: Post-Millennial Rock Musicals; K. J. Donnelly
• Team America: World Police: Duplicitous Voices of the Socio-Political Spy Musical; Jack Curtis Dubowsky
• The Anti-Musical or Generic Affinity: Is there anything left to say?; Beth Carroll
• ‘Is this real enough for you?’: Lyrical articulation of The Beatles’ songs in Across the Universe; Stephanie Fremaux
• ‘Love Is an Open Door’: Revising and Repeating Disney’s Musical Tropes in Frozen; Ryan Bunch

Part Two: Stage to Screen

1. Star quality? Song, celebrity, and the jukebox musical in Mamma Mia!; Catherine Haworth
2. Beyond the Barricade: Adapting Les Misérables for the Cinema; Ian Sapiro

Part Three: Musicals By Another Name

• O’ Brother, Where Art Thou?　The Coen Brothers and the musical genre contamination; Stefano Baschiera
• Racing in the Beat: Music in the Fast & Furious Franchise; Todd Decker
• Kill Bill to the Beat: Exploring Quentin Tarantino as a musical filmmaker; Geena Brown