Twenty-first century musicals : from stage to screen / George Rodosthenous.
| Author/creator | Rodosthenous, George, 1973- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Chapter Introduction / George Rodosthenous -- chapter 1 Drag, Rock, Authenticity and In-Betweenness -- Hedwig and the Angry Inch / Dominic Symonds -- chapter 2 All That Jazz -- The difficult journey of Chicago from stage to screen / Robert Gordon -- chapter 3 Ready for His Close-Up -- From horror to romance in The Phantom of the Opera / Jessica Sternfeld -- chapter 4 'Bohemia is Dead' -- Rent celebrating life in the face of death / Mark Shields -- chapter 5 Where Did We Go Right (And Wrong)? -- Success and failure in the adaptations of The Producers from and to the screen / Julian Woolford -- chapter 6 'Big, as in Large, as in Huge' -- Dreamgirls and difference in the performance of gender, blackness, and popular music history / Todd Decker -- chapter 7 At the Intersection of Music, Sexuality and Race -- Hairspray's generic and aesthetic variances / Linda Mokdad -- chapter 8 'With a Bit of Rock Music, Everything is Fine' -- Mamma Mia! and the camp sensibility on screen / Helen Deborah Lewis -- chapter 9 8u to Nine to Nine -- Evolutions of a cinema classic / Arthur Pritchard -- chapter 10 'You Wanna Hear the Real Story?' -- (Mis)remembering masculinity in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Jersey Boys / Sarah Whitfield -- chapter 11 The Ethical Exculpation of Moral Turpitude -- Representations of violence and death in Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods / Tim Stephenson -- chapter 12 The Last Five Years -- Medium, mode and the making of Cathy / Sarah Browne -- chapter 13 The Trouble with 'Little Girls' -- Annie on the big (and small) screen / Olaf Jubin -- chapter 14 London Road -- The 'irruption of the real' and haunting utopias in the verbatim musical / Demetris Zavros -- chapter Conclusions / George Rodosthenous. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Rodosthenous, George, 1973- Twenty-first century musicals. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017 9781138648906 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781317234067 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1317234065 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | 1315626128 |
| ISBN | 9781315626123 |
| ISBN | 9781317234043 |
| ISBN | 1317234049 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |