Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons

ISBN-13: 9781501378522 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 264 str.

Julie Lobalzo Wright; Martha Shearer

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List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Genre Panic at the Margins Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer Generic boundaries 2. Danceploitation, Musical Disruption, and Synergy in Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Breakin’ Jenny Oyallon-Koloski 3. Pitching Utopia: Popular Music, Community, and Neoliberalism in the Choir Film Eleonora Sammartino 4. E-Q-U-I-T-Y: Generic Boundaries, Gender, and Real Estate in the Magic Mike Films Martha Shearer 5. Saint-Louis Blues: From Oral Storytelling to Aural Filmmaking Estrella Sendra Fernández Musicals of the margins 6. The Marseille Film Operetta Marie Cadalanu and Phil Powrie 7. Heteroglossia in the Musical Number: Song, Music Performance, and Marginalised Identity in Tony Gatlif’s Swing (2002) Tamsin Graves 8. Sexsationalist Feminism in The Devil’s Carnival Project (2012, 2015) Joana Rita Ramalho Musical sequences 9. The On- and Off-Screen Politics of Sophia Loren’s Musical Performances in Houseboat (1958) and It Started in Naples (1960) Sarah Culhane 10. ‘Just a Little Warm-Up for the Job’: Harold Nicholas, the Specialty Act, and the Hollywood Song-and-Dance Man Kate Saccone 11. A Language of its Own: Mani Ratnam’s Experiments with the Song Scene Aakshi Magazine Music 12. Pianos, Affect and Memory Paul Mazey and Sarah Street 13. Everybody Wants to Be a Cat: Jazz Culture and Disney Animation in the 1960s Landon Palmer 14. Short-Form Pop Music Films in 1960s Britain Richard Farmer 15. “Good Evening Pasadena!”: Fantastical Performance Spaces in the Rock Documentary Richard Wallace Musicals across media 16. Live Musical Spectaculars: Eventizing Network Television in the Post-Network Age Anthony Enns 17. Camp and the Celebration of the Popular Song in RuPaul’s Drag Race “Lip Sync for Your Life” Julie Lobalzo Wright List of Contributors Index