Hollywood Musicals Routledge Film Guidebooks Series
Auteur : Cohan Steven
Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audiences today.
What is a film musical? How do musicals work, formally and culturally? Why have they endured since the introduction of sound in the late 1920s? What makes them more than glittery surfaces or escapist fare? In answering such questions, this guidebook by Steven Cohan takes new and familiar viewers on a tour of Hollywood musicals. Chapters discuss definitions of the genre, its long history, different modes of analyzing it, the great stars of the classic era, and auteur directors. Highlights include extended discussions of such celebrated musicals from the studio era as The Love Parade, Top Hat, Holiday Inn, Stormy Weather, The Gang?s All Here, Meet Me in St. Louis, Cover Girl, Mother Wore Tights, Singin? in the Rain, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Jailhouse Rock as well as later films such as Cabaret, All that Jazz, Beauty and the Beast, and La La Land. Cohan brings in numerous other examples that amplify and extend to the present day his claims about the musical, its generic coherence and flexibility, its long and distinguished history, its special appeal, and its cultural significance.
Clear and accessible, this guide provides students of film and culture with a succinct but substantial overview that provides both analysis and intersectional context to one of Hollywood?s most beloved genres.
Chapter 1: Defining the Musical
Chapter 2: A Brief Account of the Long History of the Hollywood Musical
Chapter 3: Analyzing Musicals
Chapter 4: Stars of the Classic Musical
Chapter 5: Five Auteur Directors
Epilogue: La La Land
Steven Cohan’s books include Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties, Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical, and Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies. He is Dean’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University.
Date de parution : 10-2019
12.9x19.8 cm
Date de parution : 10-2019
12.9x19.8 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Man; Steven Cohan; CGI Technology; Routledge Film Guides; West Germany; Barry Keith Grant; Play Back; The Hollywood Musical; Kit Kat Klub; Film Musicals; Coal Miner’s Daughter; Hollywood Musicals; Fairy Tale Musical; LaLa Land; Mass Art; Classical Hollywood; Tutti Frutti Hat; Gang’s All Here; Harvey Girls; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Jailhouse Rock; guidebook; Backstage Musicals; Holiday Inn; Hollywood; Anchors Aweigh; Broadway Melody; Love Parade; Dance Floor; Meet Me in St; Louis; Entire Final Section; Mother Wore Tights; Easter Parade; musicals; Lubitsch Touch; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Singin’ in the Rain; Stormy Weather; Cover Girl; The Band Wagon; Top Hat; La Land; All that Jazz; Long Shot; Beauty and the Beast; Cabaret; film; Film Guides; classic era; auteur directors; mimetic illusionism; Hollywood's genres