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Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical Music, Masculinity and Mayhem

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ISBN-10: 0230230490

ISBN-13: 9780230230491

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kelly Kessler

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List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 10/13/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

KELLY KESSLER is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communications 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 .

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Musical and Masculinity Take a Turn for the Ambivalent
How did this all happen?-Theoretical, formal, and industrial roots
How the arcadias disappeared
Nothing Is Comin' Up Roses: The Desertion of Narrative Utopia
People won't say we're in love-The dissolution of romance
The state of community and a Utopian future
Case study: The narrative of Zoot Suit
Conclusion
On a Clear Day You Can See the Cracks in the Scenery: Visual Reflexivity and Realism Trump Nostalgic Idealism
Camerawork and editing: I can see right through you
Mise-en-sc�ne: It's the real deal right here in River City-Well maybe
Case study: Tommy's conjunction of ambivalent narrative and aesthetics
Conclusion
Wanna Sing and Dance? These New Guys Are Ambivalent About It
New stars: They laughed, cried, and tried to punch each other's lights out
Wanna sing: Ah, I'm ambivalent about it
Ambivalent dance: We didn't dance all night
Case study: Twyla Tharp, rock, no-name stars, and Hair
Conclusion
The New Guard's Musical Masculinity
Performance of masculinity in the arcadian musical
Masculine ambivalence is nothing to sing about
Conclusion
Epilogue: I Could Go On Singing
Dancing into the millennium
The groovin' eighties and nineties: Teens and tots
The millennial upturn
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index