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This original collection of essays seeks to initiate a new critical debate by approaching classic Hollywood films from perspectives such as 'musicology'. Broadening the scope of previous studies, this volume also examines the manner in which European cinema appropriated the musical to create new meanings. In addition, the book provides an innovative and up-to-date reading of the influence of the musical on youth culture today and its endorsement in modern dance movies, MTV and Music Video.
This is an accessible text for students on degree programmes in Film or Music both in the UK and US. It will also be a welcome resource for those researching and teaching in this area
Robynn J. Stilwell is Lecturer in Music at the University of Southampton. Her research centres on music as a cultural text, and includes work on popular music, musical theatre, film, and dance. She has published articles on music and intertextuality in popular music and in film; on sound design and exoticism in The X-Files; and on figure skating. She is currently at work on the book Recontextualizing Music: The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Film.
Bill Marshall is Reader in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Southampton. He is the author of books on Victor Serge and Guy Hocquenghem, of a forthcoming work on Quebec national cinema, and of articles on aspects of French audio-visual culture.
Music and Structure
Emotion by Numbers: Music, Song and the Musical / Heather Laing
I've Heard that Song Before: Woody Allen's Films as Studies in Popular Musical Form / Ken Garner
Classical Hollywood Musical Cinematic Practice
The Colour of Entertainment / Richard Dyer
Jumping on The Band Wagon Again: Oedipus Backstage in the Father and Mother of all Musicals / Bruce Babington
'I Keep Wishing I Were Somewhere Else': Space and Fantasies of Freedom in the Hollywood Musical / Kenneth MacKinnon
Star Texts
Merry Melodies: The Marx Brothers' Musical Moments / Ian Conrich
How Do You Solve a 'Problem' Like Maria von Poppins? / Peter Kemp
'A Cutie With More Than Beauty': Audrey Hepburn, the Hollywood Musical and Funny Face / Peter Kramer
European Musical Forms
Queering the Folklore: Genre and the Re-presentation of Homosexuality and National Identities in Las Cosas del querer / Jose Arroyo
Between Nostalgia and Amnesia: Musical Genres in 1950s German Cinema / Tim Bergfelder
Der Kongress Tanzt: UFA's Blockbuster Filmoperette for the World Market / Horst Claus, Anne Jackel
Time, History and Memory in Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / Sylvie Lindeperg, Bill Marshall
Harnessing Visibility: The Attractions of Chantal Akerman's Golden Eighties / Cathy Fowler
More than a Pale Imitation: Narrative, Music and Dance in Two Greek Film Musicals of the 1960s / Lydia Papadimitriou
Minority Identities