Musicals at the Margins

Martha Shearer is Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in Film Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of New York City and the Hollywood Musical: Dancing in the Streets (2016). Her work on the musical has also been published in Screen, The Soundtrack, and The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations (2019).Julie Lobalzo Wrightis an Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Crossover Stardom: Male Popular Music Stars in American Cinema (2018), co-editor with Lucy Bolton of Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (2016), and has published research on stardom and musical/music films in various edited collections and in the journals Celebrity Studies and Film/Philosophy.

Richly referenced and meticulously edited, Musicals at the Margins is an essential book in cinema scholarship and will surely lead to wider conversations and more specific studies in the future.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Genre Panic at the MarginsJulie Lobalzo Wright and Martha ShearerGeneric boundaries2. Danceploitation, Musical Disruption, and Synergy in Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Breakin’Jenny Oyallon-Koloski3. Pitching Utopia: Popular Music, Community, and Neoliberalism in the Choir FilmEleonora Sammartino4. E-Q-U-I-T-Y: Generic Boundaries, Gender, and Real Estate in the Magic Mike Films Martha Shearer5. Saint-Louis Blues: From Oral Storytelling to Aural Filmmaking Estrella Sendra Fernández Musicals of the margins6. The Marseille Film OperettaMarie Cadalanu and Phil Powrie7. Heteroglossia in the Musical Number: Song, Music Performance, and Marginalised Identity in Tony Gatlif’s Swing (2002)Tamsin Graves8. Sexsationalist Feminism in The Devil’s Carnival Project (2012, 2015)Joana Rita RamalhoMusical sequences9. The On- and Off-Screen Politics of Sophia Loren’s Musical Performances in Houseboat (1958) and It Started in Naples (1960)Sarah Culhane10. ‘Just a Little Warm-Up for the Job’: Harold Nicholas, the Specialty Act, and the Hollywood Song-and-Dance ManKate Saccone11. A Language of its Own: Mani Ratnam’s Experiments with the Song Scene Aakshi MagazineMusic12. Pianos, Affect and MemoryPaul Mazey and Sarah Street13. Everybody Wants to Be a Cat: Jazz Culture and Disney Animation in the 1960s Landon Palmer14. Short-Form Pop Music Films in 1960s BritainRichard Farmer15. “Good Evening Pasadena!”: Fantastical Performance Spaces in the Rock DocumentaryRichard WallaceMusicals across media16. Live Musical Spectaculars: Eventizing Network Television in the Post-Network AgeAnthony Enns17. Camp and the Celebration of the Popular Song in RuPaul’s Drag Race “Lip Sync for Your Life”Julie Lobalzo WrightList of ContributorsIndex