Hollywood Musicals, the Film Reader

Name: Hollywood Musicals, the Film Reader
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ISBN: 9780415235600

ISBN-10: 041523560X

ISBN-13: 9780415235600

Edition: 2001

Authors: Steven Cohan

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The articles in this collection examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis and the representation of race and ethnicity.

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: Musicals of the Studio Era



Generic Forms


Introduction



Richard Dyer, Entertainment and Utopia



Jane Feuer, The Self-reflective Musical and the Myth of Entertainment



Rick Altman, The American Film Musical as Dual-Focus Narrative



Martin Rubin, Busby Berkeley and the Backstage Musical



Gendered Spectacles


Introduction



Patricia Mellencamp, Sexual Economics: Gold Diggers of 1933



Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca, Pre-text and Text in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes



Steven Cohan, "Feminizing" the Song-and-Dance Man: Fred Astaire and the Spectacle of Masculinity in the Hollywood Musical



Camp Interventions


Introduction



Richard Dyer, Judy Garland and Camp



Matthew Tinkcom, "Working Like a Homosexual": Camp Visual Codes and the Labor of Gay Subjects in the MGM Freed Unit



Pamela Robertson, Feminist Camp in Gold Diggers of 1933



Shari Roberts, "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat": Carmen Miranda, A Spectacle of Ethnicity



Racial Displacements


Introduction



Carol J. Clover, Dancin' in the Rain



Michael Rogin, New Deal Blackface



Linda Mizejewski, Beautiful White Bodies


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Index