The Sound of Musicals By Steven Cohan, 2010 (NEW)

The Sound of Musicals  By Steven Cohan, 2010 (NEW)

British Film Institute, 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84457-346-2, ISBN10: 1-84457-346-X,
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 232 pages, 91 b/w photos,



This new collection addresses the film musical, a central genre in the Hollywood studio system, which has also been important within British, Hindi and Chinese cinema. Leading international scholars explore key issues, traditions, subgenres, stars and films of the musical film from the 1930s to the present.
About the Author
Steven Cohan
STEVEN COHAN is Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA. His books include Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative (1988, co-authored with Linda M. Shires), Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties (1997), Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical (2005) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008).
 
Table of 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'AmourDavid; A.Gerstner
Dozing off During History: Hairspray's Iterations and the Gift of Black Music; M.Tinkcom