Contemporary Musical Film / / K. J. Donnelly, Beth Carroll.

A reassessment of the film musical post-2000Since the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen musical. This edited collection, bringing together a number of international scholars, looks closely at the range...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Music and the Moving Image : MMI
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 12 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION: REIMAGINING THE CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  • PART ONE. ORIGINAL MUSICALS
  • 1 AESTHETIC ABSURDITIES IN TAKASHI MIIKE’S THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS
  • 2 FILM AND THE TWILIGHT OF ROCK (ROCK IS DEAD AND FILM KILLED IT): POST-MILLENNIAL ROCK MUSICALS
  • 3 TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE: DUPLICITOUS VOICES OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL SPY MUSICAL
  • 4 THE ANTI-MUSICAL OR GENERIC AFFINITY: IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT TO SAY?
  • 5 ‘IS THIS REAL ENOUGH FOR YOU?’: LYRICAL ARTICULATION OF THE BEATLES’ SONGS IN ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
  • 6 ‘LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR’: REVISING AND REPEATING DISNEY’S MUSICAL TROPES IN FROZEN
  • PART TWO STAGE TO SCREEN
  • 7 STAR QUALITY? SONG, CELEBRITY AND THE JUKEBOX MUSICAL IN MAMMA MIA!
  • 8 BEYOND THE BARRICADE: ADAPTING LES MISÉRABLES FOR THE CINEMA
  • PART THREE. MUSICALS BY ANOTHER NAME
  • 9 O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?: THE COEN BROTHERS AND THE MUSICAL GENRE CONTAMINATION
  • 10 RACING IN THE BEAT: MUSIC IN THE FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISE
  • 11 KILL BILL: QUENTIN TARANTINO AS A MUSICAL FILMMAKER
  • INDEX