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Informationen zum Autor Peter William Evans is a Professor 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), to British cinema (a book on Carol Reed) and Spanish cinema (books on Bunuel, Almodovar, and Bigas Luna). Klappentext There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere--they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race, to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces students to alternative classics that range from silent film to CSI. The most brilliant of all the 1930s Astaire/Rogers musicals, Top Hat 's wonderful dance routines, catchy Irving Berlin songs, witty dialogue, and lavish Art Deco sets have ensured its continuing popularity seventy-five years after its first screening in 1935. Peter William Evans's immensely readable volume uses this paradigmatic film to explore the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, and the contested relations between the sexes, all set against the social-political backdrop of 1930s America Written in a clear, accessible style, Top Hat appeals 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 ...
