Screen LibraryMamma mia! : the movie : exploring a cultural phenomenon /
Mama mia! The movie" (2008) was one of the top international box-office hits of its year and the fastest selling DVD in British history. Responses were passionate but polarized: while legions of fans participated in celebratory sing-along screenings, critics dismissed it as a "Super Pooper...
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
I.B. Tauris,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Mama mia! The movie" (2008) was one of the top international box-office hits of its year and the fastest selling DVD in British history. Responses were passionate but polarized: while legions of fans participated in celebratory sing-along screenings, critics dismissed it as a "Super Pooper". The critical split often ran along the fault line of gender, with male critics initially unimpressed by the uninhibited, tongue in cheek frivolity of this rare film, produced and directed by women. This welcome first book on a twenty-first century cultural phenomenon explores these diverse responses to " |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 248 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781848859425 (paperback) : 1848859422 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J905 |
| Call Number: | J905/M265 |
| Contents: |
Facing our Waterloo: evaluating Mamma mia! the movie / Everyone listens when I start to sing: gender and ventriloquism in the songs of Mamma mia! on stage and screen / Mamma mia!'s female authorship / 'See that girl, watch that scene': notes on the star persona and presence of Meryl Streep in Mamma mia! / 'Knowing me, knowing you': reading Mamma mia! as feminine object / The power of sisterhood: Mamma mia! as female friendship film / Em |