Screen LibraryHollywood musicals, the film reader
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2002. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
In focus--Routledge film readers |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 212 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0415235596 041523560X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | J617 |
| CLC: |
J617.6-097.12 J653.6-097.12 |
| Call Number: | J653.6-097.12/H746 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index. 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. |