Musicals at the Margins
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7852-2 (ISBN)
Martha Shearer is Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in Film Studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the author of New York City and the Hollywood Musical: Dancing in the Streets (2016). Her work on the musical has also been published in Screen, The Soundtrack, and The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations (2019). Julie Lobalzo Wrightis an Assistant Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Crossover Stardom: Male Popular Music Stars in American Cinema (2018), co-editor with Lucy Bolton of Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (2016), and has published research on stardom and musical/music films in various edited collections and in the journals Celebrity Studies and Film/Philosophy.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Genre Panic at the Margins
Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer
Generic boundaries
2. Danceploitation, Musical Disruption, and Synergy in Saturday Night Fever, Flashdance, and Breakin’
Jenny Oyallon-Koloski
3. Pitching Utopia: Popular Music, Community, and Neoliberalism in the Choir Film
Eleonora Sammartino
4. E-Q-U-I-T-Y: Generic Boundaries, Gender, and Real Estate in the Magic Mike Films
Martha Shearer
5. Saint-Louis Blues: From Oral Storytelling to Aural Filmmaking
Estrella Sendra Fernández
Musicals of the margins
6. The Marseille Film Operetta
Marie Cadalanu and Phil Powrie
7. Heteroglossia in the Musical Number: Song, Music Performance, and Marginalised Identity in Tony Gatlif’s Swing (2002)
Tamsin Graves
8. Sexsationalist Feminism in The Devil’s Carnival Project (2012, 2015)
Joana Rita Ramalho
Musical sequences
9. The On- and Off-Screen Politics of Sophia Loren’s Musical Performances in Houseboat (1958) and It Started in Naples (1960)
Sarah Culhane
10. ‘Just a Little Warm-Up for the Job’: Harold Nicholas, the Specialty Act, and the Hollywood Song-and-Dance Man
Kate Saccone
11. A Language of its Own: Mani Ratnam’s Experiments with the Song Scene
Aakshi Magazine
Music
12. Pianos, Affect and Memory
Paul Mazey and Sarah Street
13. Everybody Wants to Be a Cat: Jazz Culture and Disney Animation in the 1960s
Landon Palmer
14. Short-Form Pop Music Films in 1960s Britain
Richard Farmer
15. “Good Evening Pasadena!”: Fantastical Performance Spaces in the Rock Documentary
Richard Wallace
Musicals across media
16. Live Musical Spectaculars: Eventizing Network Television in the Post-Network Age
Anthony Enns
17. Camp and the Celebration of the Popular Song in RuPaul’s Drag Race “Lip Sync for Your Life”
Julie Lobalzo Wright
List of Contributors
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.11.2022 |
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Zusatzinfo | 28 bw illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5013-7852-X / 150137852X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-7852-2 / 9781501378522 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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