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Informationen zum Autor Corey K. Creekmur is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema & Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa, where he also directs the Institute for Cinema and Culture. He is the author of Cattle Queens and Lonesome Cowboys: Gender and Sexuality in the Western (Duke UP, forthcoming) and the author of numerous essays on film music and popular Hindi cinema. Linda Y. Mokdad is Visiting Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. She works on Hollywood and Arab cinemas, and has most recently completed an essay on the films of Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman (Wallflower Press, forthcoming). Klappentext APPROVED BY THE EDITORS Traditions in World Cinema General Editors: Linda Badley and R. Barton Palmer Founding Editor: Steven Jay Schneider This series introduces diverse and fascinating movements in world cinema. Each volume concentrates on a set of films from a different national, regional or, in some cases, cross-cultural cinema which constitute a particular tradition . The International Film Musical Editors: Corey K. Creekmur and Linda Y. Mokdad ENDORSEMENTS 'This groundbreaking new anthology proves once and for all that Hollywood is not synonymous with film musicals. From Brazil to the UK, Russia to India, these lively essays reconsider what "musicals" are or can be made to be. A refreshing and most welcome addition to the new scholarship on musicals.' Caryl Flinn, Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan The musical is not only one of Hollywood's best-known forms, but one of cinema's few genuinely international genres. Yet the film musical in world cinema remains largely unknown outside the local or regional contexts in which it has often thrived. The International Film Musical is the first comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. The musical has often functioned as an explicitly local or national form, drawing upon distinct 'native' rather than 'international' traditions. At the same time, it has frequently imitated or been influenced by Hollywood models, resulting in its easy dismissal as culturally 'impure'. As this book emphasises, film musicals vividly demonstrate the creative and ideological tension between promoting and abandoning traditional cultural forms and styles. This dynamic between local and global elements is at the heart of international film musicals, acknowledging the dominant Hollywood model while claiming their own cultural specificity. Key Features * Individual chapters provide succinct historical and critical discussions of musicals from sixteen major national film traditions, along with the transnational musical. * A coda by Rick Altman, one of the genre's most prominent scholars. Corey K. Creekmur is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Cinema & Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. Linda Y. Mokdad teaches film studies at the University of Iceland. Zusammenfassung The musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres but it has never been studied as a global sensation. This book fills this critical gap in film studies as it brings together musicals from 15 nations in order to highlight running themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Corey K. Creekmur and Linda Y. Mokdad; PART I: EUROPE; 1. Great Britain: John Mundy; 2. France: Kelley Conway; 3. Germany: Antje Ascheid; 4. Portugal: Lisa Shaw; 5. Spain: Inmaculada Sanchez Alarcon; 6. Italy: Alex Marlow-Mann; 7. Greece: Lydia Papadimitriou; 8. Russia: Richard Taylor; PART II: LATIN AMERICA; 9. Mexico: Ana M. Lopez; 10. Brazil: Joao Luis Viera; PART III: ASIA; 11. Japan: Aaron Gerow; 12. China: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh; 13. India: Michael Lawrence; PART IV: THE MIDDLE EAST; 14. Egypt: Linda Y. Mokdad; 15. Turkey: Nezih Erdo?an; PART V: HOLLYWOOD AND THE WORLD;...
