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A Defining History of the American Film Musical Genre

AvSean Griffin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; the first text on this subject for over two decades, it employs the very latest concepts and research. The most up-to-date text on the subject, with uniquely comprehensive coverage and employing the very latest concepts and researchSurveys centuries of music history from the music and dance of Native Americans to contemporary music performance in streaming mediaExamines the different ways the film musical genre has been defined, what gets counted as a musical, why, and who gets to make that decisionThe text is written in an accessible manner for general cinema and musical theatre buffs, whilst retaining theoretical rigour in researchDescribes the contributions made to the genre by marginalized or subordinated identity groups who have helped invent and shape the musical

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-21
Mått:154 x 232 x 24 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:384
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405194969

Utforska kategorier

Filmmusik, musikaler och teatermusik inom Kultur
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Sean Griffin is a Professor of Film and Media Arts at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of Tinker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out (1999). He is the editor of Hetero: Queering Representations of Straightness (2009) and What Dreams Were Made of: Movie Stars of the 1940s (2011). He co-edited Queer Cinema, The Film Reader (with Harry M. Benshoff, 2005), and co-authored America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies (Wiley Blackwell , 2009) and Queer Images: A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America (2006).

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction 11 Overture: Musical Traditions before Cinema 112 You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The Sound Revolution 353 Face the Music and Dance: The Depression 674 Singing a Song of Freedom: World War II 975 There’s Beauty Everywhere: MGM and the Freed Unit 1256 Something’s Gotta Give: The Postwar Musical 1477 Bustin’ Out All Over: The Rise of the Musical Blockbuster 1758 In a Minor Key: The B Musical and Beyond 1979 The Sound of Money: Musicals in the 1960s 22510 Whistling in the Dark: A Genre in Crisis 25111 Can’t Stop the Music: Musicals and the New Hollywood 27912 Just Like Scheherezade: Reviving the Musical Film Genre 307Index 335