Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of the Hollywood musical /
"The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical, curated by editor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, reflects and expands on current scholarship on the film musical in a handbook that mixes new discoveries through archival research with new perspectives on familiar titles. It addresses issues such as wh...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical, curated by editor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, reflects and expands on current scholarship on the film musical in a handbook that mixes new discoveries through archival research with new perspectives on familiar titles. It addresses issues such as why audiences accept people bursting into song in musicals; how technology affects the way numbers are staged; and how writers have adapted their material to suit certain stars. It also looks at critical issues such as racism and sexism, and assesses the role and nature of the film musical in the twenty-first century."-- |
| Item Description: | Series from book jacket-flap. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 644 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [613]-621) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780197503423 019750342X |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: |
J905.712-62 J951.2-62 |
| Call Number: | J951.2-62/O984 |
| Contents: |
The Hollywood musical and the critical lens : an introduction / The conventions of breaking into song and dance. Expressive thresholds and anomalous utterances / "Make like you're singing it" : performing musical texture in Judy Garland's early films / Revealing the subconscious : the dream ballet in movie musicals / Singing and dancing in widescreen : the extreme aesthetics of the mid-1950s studio musical number / The musical's othering impulse. From Snow White to the Snow Queen : voicing the Disney princess / "Going places" : musical Latins in Latin musicals / Performing whiteness through the first-generation American immigrant experience from Viennese nights to Pitch perfect / "Cubanenic, Carabenic, Castalenic, Harlemenic" : reclaiming Blackness in Lena Horne's film musicals / "I'd do anything," Export strategies for a culturally-specific product : dubbing, subtitling, and cutting the Hollywood musical for the German-Austrian market / Production histories. "Hear the beat of dancing feet" : 42nd Street (1933) and the "new" film musical / When Fred lost Ginger : thoughts on the genesis and legacy of A damsel in distress / "The perfect nanny" : casting in Disney's Mary Poppins and the children's musical / Developing the screenplay for Singin' in the rain (1952) / Night and day, the musical / Stars. The problem of playing oneself : Oscar Levant and the Hollywood musical / "Hard to replace" : the shadow of Judy Garland and the artistic remarriage of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Barkleys of Broadway / "The same story told over and over" : the mythology of stardom in the musical A star is born films / The auteur as ghost star : Vincente Minnelli's framings of Judy Garland / Esther William's Latin lovers / After the studio system. Xanadu and the musical's history of failure / "An inescapable failure" : The little prince, realism, and the Golden Age / Yentl, Barbra Streisand, and music of the mind / Musical renaissance, musical reflexivity. Theatricality, artifice, and affective space in the works of Baz Lurhmann / Musical television : Smash, the backstager, and the Broadway musical on TV / The virtuosic camera : nostalgia, technology, and the contemporary Hollywood musical / P.T. Barnum reinvented for the twenty-first century / |