The International Film Musical

ISBN-13: 9780748634767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Corey K Creekmur

Opis

This is the first comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. While the musical is one cinema's few genuinely international genres, it has often functioned as an explicitly local or national form, drawing upon distinct traditions understood as 'native' rather than 'international'. Simultaneously, musicals from around the world have often imitated Hollywood models, resulting in their easy dismissal as culturally 'impure' and demonstrating the creative and ideological tension between promoting and abandoning traditional cultural forms and styles. This productive tension between local and global elements lies at the heart of international film musicals, which typically acknowledge the dominant Hollywood model while claiming their own cultural specificity.

Spis treści

Illustration; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Corey K. Creekmur and Linda Y. Mokdad; PART I: EUROPE; 1. Great Britain: John Mundy; 2. France: Kelley Conway; 3. Germany: Antje Ascheid; 4. Portugal: Lisa Shaw; 5. Spain: Inmaculada Sánchez Alarcón; 6. Italy: Alex Marlow-Mann; 7. Greece: Lydia Papadimitriou; 8. Russia: Richard Taylor; PART II: LATIN AMERICA; 9. Mexico: Ana M. López; 10. Brazil: João Luis Viera; PART III: ASIA; 11. Japan: Aaron Gerow; 12. China: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh; 13. India: Michael Lawrence; PART IV: THE MIDDLE EAST; 14. Egypt: Linda Y. Mokdad; 15. Turkey: Nezih Erdo?an; PART V: HOLLYWOOD AND THE WORLD; 16. The Postmodern Transnational Film Musical: Björn Norðfjörð; Coda: Rick Altman; Index.