The sound of musicals. (©2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven Cohan.
• Other Names: Cohan, Steven
• Contents: ; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem like the Film Musical?; PART ONE: GENRE MATTERS; From Homosocial to Heterosexual: The Musical's Two Projects; R.Altman ; British Gaiety: Musical Cinema and the Theatrical Tradition in British Film; L.Napper; The Mellifluous Illogics of the 'Bollywood Musical'; B.Sarkar ; The International Art Musical: Defining and Periodizing the Post-1980s Musical; J.Feuer ; PART TWO: HISTORIES OF THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL; Flirting with Terpischore: Dance, Class, and Entertainment in 1930s Musicals; A.L.McLean ; Star Spangled Shows: History and Utopia in Wartime Canteen Musicals; S.Cohan ; Sailors and Kissing Bandits: The Challenging Spectacle of Frank Sinatra at MGM; K.McNally ; Bloody Mary is the Girl I Love: U.S. White Liberalism vs. Pacific Islander Subjectivity in South Pacific; S.Griffin ; The Singing Sixties: Rethinking the Julie Andrews Roadshow Musical; B.Farmer; The Streisand Musical; P.Robertson Wojcik ; PART THREE: BEYOND CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD; The Music and Musicality of Bollywood; A.Morcom ; Robert Altman and the New Hollywood Musical; G.Sherwood Magee ; The Musical as Mode: Community Formation and Alternative Rock in Empire Records; K.J.Bozelka; A Musical Dressed Up in a Different Way: Urban Ireland and the Possible Spaces of John Carney's Once; M.J.Fee; Touch from a Distance: Christopher Honoré s Les Chansons d'Amour David; A.Gerstner ; Dozing off During History: Hairspray 's Iterations and the Gift of Black Music; M.Tinkcom; ; ; ; ;
• Publisher Details: London : BFI
• Publication Date: 2010
• Copyright Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.436; Musical films -- History and criticism; Musical films; Film & Video/History & Criticism; General; Film theory & criticism; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781844575794; 1844575799
• Related ISBNs: 9781844573479; 1844573478; 9781844573462; 184457346X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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