The Sound of Musicals

ISBN-13: 9781844573462 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 232 str.

Steven Cohan

Opis

This new collection addresses the film musical, acentral genrein the Hollywood studio system, which has also been important within British, Hindi and Chinese cinema.Leading international scholarsexplore key issues, traditions, subgenres, stars and filmsof themusical film from the 1930s to the present."

Recenzje

...a rewarding volume of recent papers. Illuminations

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem like the Film Musical?.- PART ONE: GENRE MATTERS.- From Homosocial to Heterosexual: The Musical's Two Projects; R.Altman.- British Gaiety: Musical Cinema and the Theatrical Tradition in British Film; L.Napper.- The Mellifluous Illogics of the 'Bollywood Musical'; B.Sarkar.- The International Art Musical: Defining and Periodizing the Post-1980s Musical; J.Feuer.- PART TWO: HISTORIES OF THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL.- Flirting with Terpischore: Dance, Class, and Entertainment in 1930s Musicals; A.L.McLean.- Star Spangled Shows: History and Utopia in Wartime Canteen Musicals; S.Cohan.- Sailors and Kissing Bandits: The Challenging Spectacle of Frank Sinatra at MGM; K.McNally.- Bloody Mary is the Girl I Love: U.S. White Liberalism vs. Pacific Islander Subjectivity in South Pacific; S.Griffin.- The Singing Sixties: Rethinking the Julie Andrews Roadshow Musical; B.Farmer.- The Streisand Musical; P.Robertson Wojcik.- PART THREE: BEYOND CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD.- The Music and Musicality of Bollywood; A.Morcom.- Robert Altman and the New Hollywood Musical; G.Sherwood Magee.- The Musical as Mode: Community Formation and Alternative Rock in Empire Records; K.J.Bozelka.- A Musical Dressed Up in a Different Way: Urban Ireland and the Possible Spaces of John Carney's Once; M.J.Fee.- Touch from a Distance: Christopher Honoré s Les Chansons d'Amour David; A.Gerstner.- Dozing off During History: Hairspray's Iterations and the Gift of Black Music; M.Tinkcom.

O autorze

Cohan, Steven
STEVEN COHAN is Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University, USA and President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. His books include Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative (1988, co-authored with Linda M. Shires), Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (1997), Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical (2005); a BFI TV Classic on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008); 'The Sound of Musicals' (BFI 2010) and Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies (2018).