Hollywood musicals, the film reader
This book explores one of the most popular genres in film history. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of the musical, including: the musical's significance as a genre; the musical's own particular representation of sexual difference; the idea of ca...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2007
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| Colección: | In focus (Routledge)
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b18930438*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Entertainment and utopia / Richard Dyer
- The self-reflective musical and the myth of entertainment / Jane Feuer
- The American film musical as dual-focus narrative / Rick Altman
- Busby Berkeley and the backstage musical / Martin Rubin
- Sexual economics, Gold diggers of 1933 / Patricia Mellencamp
- Pre-text and text in Gentlemen prefer blondes / Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca
- "Feminizing" the song-and-dance man, Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan
- Judy Garland and camp / Richard Dyer
- "Working like a homosexual", camp visual codes and the labor of gay subjects in the MGM Freed Unit / Matthew Tinkcom
- Feminist camp in Gold diggers of 1933 / Pamela Robertson
- "The lady in the tutti-frutti hat", Carmen Miranda, a spectacle of ethnicity / Shari Roberts
- Dancin' in the rain / Carol J. Clover
- New Deal blackface / Michael Rogin
- Beautiful white bodies / Linda Mizejewski.
