Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical
Title | Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical PDF eBook |
Author | K. Kessler |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2010-10-13 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0230290558 |
A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!.
Broadway in the Box
Title | Broadway in the Box PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Kessler |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2020-04-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190674032 |
It was as if American television audiences discovered the musical in the early 21st century. In 2009 Glee took the Fox Network and American television by storm with the unexpected unification of primetime programming, awkward teens, and powerful voices spontaneously bursting into song. After raking in the highest rating for a new show in the 2009-2010 season, Glee would continue to cultivate rabid fans, tie-in soundtracks and merchandising, and a spinoff reality competition show until its conclusion in 2015. Alongside Glee, NBC and Fox would crank up musical visibility with the nighttime drama Smash and a string of live musical productions. Then came ABC's comedic fantasy musical series Galavant and the CW's surprise Golden Globe darling Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Television and the musical appeared to be a perfect match. But, as author Kelly Kessler illustrates, television had at that point been carrying on a sixty-year, symbiotic love affair with the musical. From Rodgers and Hammerstein's appearance on the first Toast of the Town telecast and Mary Martin's iconic Peter Pan airings to Barbra Streisand's 1960s CBS specials, The Carol Burnett Show, Cop Rock, Great Performances, and a string of one-off musical episodes of sitcoms, nighttime soaps, fantasy shows, and soap operas, television has always embraced the musical. Kessler shows how the form is written across the history of American television and how its various incarnations tell the stories of shifting American culture and changing television, film, and theatrical landscapes. She recounts and explores this rich, decades-long history by traversing musicals, stars, and sounds from film, Broadway, and Las Vegas to the small screen.
The Hollywood Musical
Title | The Hollywood Musical PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Feuer |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780253207685 |
... both fresh and informed, as well as a pleasure to read. --Film Quarterly Since 1982, when this book first appeared, the Hollywood musical has undergone a rebirth, with the rise of teen musicals such as Dirty Dancing and Flashdance. In a chapter written especially for this second edition of her well-known study, Jane Feuer shows how this new development in the genre relates to important changes in the cinema audience itself. It is the text for the study of Hollywood musicals.
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Pages | 273 |
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ISBN | 0190843810 |
Hollywood Musicals, the Film Reader
Title | Hollywood Musicals, the Film Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Cohan |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Motion picture music |
ISBN | 9780415235594 |
This book explores one of the most popular genres in film history. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of the musical, including: the musical's significance as a genre; the musical's own particular representation of sexual difference; the idea of camp, both through stars such as Judy Garland and Carmen Miranda and musicals themselves; and the displacement of race in Hollywood's representations of entertainment. Each section features an editor's introduction setting debates in context.
The Hollywood Musical
Title | The Hollywood Musical PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Feuer |
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Release | 1900 |
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The Hollywood Musical Goes to War
Title | The Hollywood Musical Goes to War PDF eBook |
Author | Allen L. Woll |
Publisher | Taylor Trade Publications |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780882297040 |
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