The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780197503423, 019750342X, 9780197503447, 0197503446

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• ISBN-10: 0197503446
• ISBN-13: 9780197503447
• Author: Dominic Broomfield-Mchugh

The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical, curated by editor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, reflects and expands on current scholarship on the film musical in a handbook that mixes new discoveries through archival research with new perspectives on familiar titles. It addresses issues such as why audiences accept people bursting into song in musicals; how technology affects the way numbers are staged; and how writers have adapted their material to suit certain stars. It also looks at critical issues such as racism and sexism, and assesses the role and nature of the film musical in the twenty-first century. A remarkable survey at the cutting edge of the field, The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical will be a resource for students and scholars alike for years to come.

Table contents:

Part I. The Conventions of Breaking Into Song and Dance

1. Expressive Thresholds and Anomalous Utterances

2. “Make Like You’re Singing It”: Performing Musical Texture in Judy Garland’s Early Films

3. Revealing the Subconscious: The Dream Ballet in Movie Musicals

4. Singing and Dancing in Widescreen: The Extreme Aesthetics of the Mid-1950s Studio Musical Number

Part II. The Musical’s Othering Impulse

5. From Snow White to the Snow Queen: Voicing the Disney Princess

6. “Going Places”: Musical Latins in Latin Musicals

7. Performing Whiteness through the First-Generation American Immigrant Experience from Viennese Nights to Pitch Perfect

8. “Cubanenic, Carabenic, Castalenic, Harlemenic”: Reclaiming Blackness in Lena Horne’s Film Musicals

9. “I’d Do Anything” or Export Strategies for a Culturally Specific Product: Dubbing, Subtitling, and Cutting the Hollywood Musical for the German-Austrian Market

Part III. Production Histories

10. “Hear the Beat of Dancing Feet”: 42nd Street (1933) and the “New” Film Musical

11. When Fred Lost Ginger: Thoughts on the Genesis and Legacy of A Damsel in Distress

12. “The Perfect Nanny”: Casting in Disney’s Mary Poppins and the Children’s Musical

13. Developing the Screenplay for Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

14. Night and Day, the Musical

Part IV. Stars

15. The Problem of Playing Oneself: Oscar Levant and the Hollywood Musical

16. “Hard to Replace”: The Shadow of Judy Garland and the Artistic Remarriage of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Barkleys of Broadway

17. “The Same Story Told Over and Over”: The Mythology of Stardom in the Musical A Star Is Born Films

18. The Auteur as Ghost Star: Vincente Minnelli’s Framings of Judy Garland

19. Esther Williams’s Latin Lovers

Part V. After the Studio System

20. Xanadu and the Musical’s History of Failure

21. “An Inescapable Failure”: The Little Prince, Realism, and the Golden Age

22. Yentl, Barbra Streisand, and Music of the Mind

Part VI. Musical Renaissance, Musical Reflexivity

23. Theatricality, Artifice, and Affective Space in the Works of Baz Luhrmann

24. Musical Television: Smash, the Backstager, and the Broadway Musical on TV

25. The Virtuosic Camera: Nostalgia, Technology, and the Contemporary Hollywood Musical

26. P. T. Barnum Reinvented for the Twenty-First Century

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