The Oxford handbook of the Hollywood musical / edited by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh.
| Other author | McHugh, Dominic. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
| Description | xiv, 644 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Handbooks Online Music |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford handbooks Oxford handbooks. ^A611862 |
| Contents | The Hollywood musical and the critical lens : an introduction / Dominic Broomfield-McHugh -- Part I, The conventions of breaking into song and dance. Expressive thresholds and anomalous utterances / Lloyd Whitesell. "Make like you're singing it" : performing musical texture in Judy Garland's early films / Dominic Symonds. Revealing the subconscious : the dream ballet in movie musicals / Kara Gardner. Singing and dancing in widescreen : the extreme aesthetics of the mid-1950s studio musical number / Todd Decker -- Part II, The musical's othering impulse. From Snow White to the Snow Queen : voicing the Disney princess / Colleen Montgomery. "Going places" : musical Latins in Latin musicals / Desirée J. Garcia. Performing whiteness through the first-generation American immigrant experience from Viennese nights to Pitch perfect / William Everett. "Cubanenic, Carabenic, Castalenic, Harlemenic" : reclaiming Blackness in Lena Horne's film musicals / Hannah Robbins. "I'd do anything," or, Export strategies for a culturally-specific product : dubbing, subtitling, and cutting the Hollywood musical for the German-Austrian market / Olaf Jubin -- Part III, Production histories. "Hear the beat of dancing feet" : 42nd Street (1933) and the "new" film musical / Tim Carter. When Fred lost Ginger : thoughts on the genesis and legacy of A damsel in distress / Geoffrey Block. "The perfect nanny" : casting in Disney's Mary Poppins and the children's musical / Megan Woller. Developing the screenplay for Singin' in the rain (1952) / Andrew Buchman. Night and day, the musical / Cliff Eisen -- Part IV, Stars. The problem of playing oneself : Oscar Levant and the Hollywood musical / Nathan Platte. "Hard to replace" : the shadow of Judy Garland and the artistic remarriage of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Barkleys of Broadway / Dominic Broomfield-McHugh. "The same story told over and over" : the mythology of stardom in the musical A star is born films / Julie Lobalzo Wright. The auteur as ghost star : Vincente Minnelli's framings of Judy Garland / Raymond Knapp. Esther William's Latin lovers / Steven Cohan -- Part V, After the studio system. Xanadu and the musical's history of failure / Martha Shearer. "An inescapable failure" : The little prince, realism, and the Golden Age / Katy Jayasuriya. Yentl, Barbra Streisand, and music of the mind / Paul R. Laird -- Part VI, Musical renaissance, musical reflexivity. Theatricality, artifice, and affective space in the works of Baz Lurhmann / Robynn J. Stilwell. Musical television : Smash, the backstager, and the Broadway musical on TV / Jane Feuer. The virtuosic camera : nostalgia, technology, and the contemporary Hollywood musical / Hannah Lewis. P.T. Barnum reinvented for the twenty-first century / James Leve. |
| Abstract | "The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical, curated by editor Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, reflects and expands on current scholarship on the film musical in a handbook that mixes new discoveries through archival research with new perspectives on familiar titles. It addresses issues such as why audiences accept people bursting into song in musicals; how technology affects the way numbers are staged; and how writers have adapted their material to suit certain stars. It also looks at critical issues such as racism and sexism, and assesses the role and nature of the film musical in the twenty-first century."-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Series from book jacket-flap. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 613-621) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023287962 |
| ISBN | 9780197503423 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 019750342X (hardcover) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |