The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen

Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen'

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2017
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-4742-3416-0 (ISBN)

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The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and racial politics, outreach work and impact of stage, film and television adaptations. Covering early 20th century works such as the first full-length feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), to The Lion King - Broadway's highest grossing production in history, and Frozen (2013), this edited collection offers a diverse range of theoretical engagements that will appeal to readers of film and media studies, musical theatre, cultural studies, and theatre and performance.

The volume is divided into three sections to provide a contextual analysis of Disney's most famous musicals:
· DISNEY MUSICALS: ON FILM
· DISNEY ADAPTATIONS: ON STAGE AND BEYOND
· DISNEY MUSICALS: GENDER AND RACE

The first section employs film theory, semiotics and film music analysis to explore the animated works and their links to the musical theatre genre. The second section addresses various stage versions and considers Disney’s outreach activities, cultural value and productions outside the Broadway theatrical arena. The final section focuses on issues of gender and race portraying representations of race, hetero-normativity, masculinity and femininity in Newsies, Frozen, High School Musical, Aladdin and The Jungle Book.

The various chapters address these three aspects of the Disney Musical and offer new critical readings of a vast range of important works from the Disney musical cannon including Enchanted, Mary Poppins, Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lion King and versions of musicals for television in the early 1990s and 2000s. The critical readings are detailed, open-minded and come to surprising conclusions about the nature of the Disney Musical and its impact.

George Rodosthenous is Associate Professor in Theatre Directing at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries of the University of Leeds, UK. He is the Artistic Director of the theatre company 'Altitude North' and also works as a freelance director/composer for the theatre.

Introduction: George Rodosthenous (Leeds)
PART A DISNEY MUSICALS: ON FILM

1. Music and the Aura of Reality in Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – Elizabeth Randell Upton, (University of California, Los Angeles)
2. Medieval “Beauty” and Romantic “Song” in Animated Technirama: Pageantry, Tableau, and Action in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty – Raymond Knapp (University of California, Los Angeles)
3. Mary Poppins: A Precursor of the Matriarchal Musical – Tim Stephenson (University of Leeds)
4. Musicals in the Mirror: Enchanted, Self-Reflexivity, and Disney's Sudden Boldness – Paul Laird (University of Kansas)

PART B DISNEY ADAPTATIONS: ON STAGE AND BEYOND
5. Disney as Broadway Auteur: The Disney Versions of Broadway Musicals for Television in the Late 1990s and Early 2000s – Geoffrey Block (University of Puget Sound)
6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): Too far “Out There”? Olaf Jubin – (Regent’s University London)
7. The Lion King: A Blockbuster Feline on Broadway and Beyond – Barbara Wallace Grossman (Tufts University)
8. Not Only on Broadway: Disney Junior Across the United States – Stacy E. Wolf (Princeton Atelier, Princeton University)?
PART C DISNEY MUSICALS: GENDER AND RACE
9. Dancing toward Masculinity: Newsies and Homosocial Choreography – Aaron C. Thomas (Dartmouth College)
10. ‘We’re All in This Together:’ Being Girls and Boys in High School Musical (2006) - Dominic Symonds (University of Lincoln)
11. ‘I wanna be like you’: Negotiating race, racism and Orientalism in The Jungle Book on stage– Stefanie Jones, Donatella Galella, Catherine Young, and Emily Clark (City University of New York)
12. Ashman’s Aladdin Archive: Queer Orientalism in the Disney Renaissance – Sam Baltimore (Twoson University)
13. “For the first time in forever”: locating Frozen as a feminist Disney musical – Sarah Whitfield (University of Wolverhampton)
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.07.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4742-3416-X / 147423416X
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-3416-0 / 9781474234160
Zustand	Neuware