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Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical K. Kessler

Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical By K. Kessler

Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical by K. Kessler

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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!.

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Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem by K. Kessler

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!.

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'Through her focus on a specific subset of musicals - integrated musicals from 1966-1983 - and shifting representations of masculinity within these films, Kessler provides readers with an engaging and accessible snapshot of the ways in which cultural conditions and anxieties find expression onscreen, often altering the very medium with which they engage.' -Scope

About K. Kessler


KELLY KESSLER is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Her work on gender, genre, and sexuality has appeared in publications such as Film Quarterly, Televising Queer Women, American Masculinities, and The New Queer Aesthetic on Television.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Musical and Masculinity Take a Turn for the Ambivalent Nothing is Comin' Up Roses: The Desertion of Narrative Utopia On a Clear Day you Can See the Cracks in the Scenery: Visual Reflexivity and Realism Trump Nostalgic Idealism Wanna Sing and Dance? These New Guys are Ambivalent About It The New Guard's Musical Masculinity Epilogue: I Could Go On Singing Notes Appendix Bibliography Index

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NPB9780230230491
9780230230491
0230230490
Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem by K. Kessler
K. Kessler
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2010-10-13
256
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