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Informationen zum Autor Peter William Evans is a Professor of Film Studies, in the Department of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. His publications range from classical Hollywood (books on the musical, romantic comedy and the Biblical epic, and articles on film noir, the western and Hitchcock), British cinema (a book on Carol Reed) and Spanish cinema (books on Buñuel, Almodovar and Bigas Luna). Klappentext Top Hat is the most brilliant of all the 1930s Astaire/Rogers musicals; its wonderful dance routines, catchy Irving Berlin songs, witty dialogue, lavish Art Deco sets, and outstanding performances by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have ensured its continuing popularity more than seventy years after its first screening in 1935, combining brilliance in performance, screenplay, music, photography and set design. Peter Evans' immensely readable volume uses this paradigmatic film to explore questions not only of integration across the Hollywood musical in general, but the ambiguities of (gendered) national identity, romance, subjectivity and the notion of the couple. Written in a clear, accessible style, Top Hat probes text and context carefully to appeal to the student and teacher of the musical and of Hollywood film history, as well as the film-loving general reader. Zusammenfassung Peter Evans' immensely readable volume uses this classic film to explore questions not only of integration across the Hollywood musical in general! but the ambiguities of (gendered) national identity! romance! subjectivity and the notion of the couple. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures vi Synopsis vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Making of Top Hat 6 2. Fred Astaire: "Outlaw" Stylist of the Dance 19 3. Ginger Rogers: Confirming and Defying Convention 26 4. Introduction to Narrative and Number: The Bumpy Road to Love 35 5. The Numbers 43 6. Querying National and Sexual Identity 85 Conclusion: A Perfectly Swell Romance 101 Notes 104 Bibliography 106 Index 114 ...
