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Informationen zum Autor Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including Auteurs and Authorship: a Film Reader (2008) Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Film Genre Reader (2003), and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996). As well as being an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the series editor of the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley-Blackwell. Klappentext This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical readings of iconic musical films, focusing on their cultural relationship to other aspects of American popular music.* Offers a depth of scholarship that will appeal to students and scholars* Leads a crucial analysis of the cultural context of musicals, particularly the influence of popular music on the genre* Delves into critical issues behind these films such as race, gender, ideology, and authorship* Features close readings of canonical and neglected film musicals from the 1930s to the present including: Top Hat, Singin' in the Rain, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, West Side Story, and Across the Universe Zusammenfassung The Hollywood Film Musical examines the cross-fertilization between the genre and the popular music industry! tracing the function of this relationship in aesthetic! ideological and industrial terms! and outlining the influence of minstrel shows! vaudeville! the Broadway stage! the recording industry! and stardom. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 11 Historical Overview 72 Critical Overview 383 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 554 Top Hat (1935) 705 The Pirate (1948) 856 West Side Story (1961) and Saturday Night Fever (1977) 997 Woodstock (1970) 1168 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 1319 Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Across the Universe (2007) 146References 165Index 171...
