Twenty-first century musicals : from stage to screen / edited by George Rodosthenous.
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2018Description: xvi, 236 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43220ISBN: 9781138648890 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Musicals -- 21st century -- History and criticism | MusicDDC classification: 782.14 ROD LOC classification: ML1706 | .T9 2018Summary: 'Twenty-First Century Musicals' stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations. Each chapter offers a new perspective on a single musical, challenging populist narratives and exploring underlying narratives and sub-texts in-depth.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations. Each chapter offers a new perspective on a single musical, challenging populist narratives and exploring underlying narratives and sub-texts in depth. Themes of national identity; race, class and gender; the 'voice' and 'singing live' on film; authenticity; camp sensibilities; and the celebration of failure are addressed in a series of questions including:
How does the film adaptation provide a different viewing experience from the stage version? What themes are highlighted in the film adaptation? What does the new casting bring to the work? Do camera angles dictate a different reading from the stage version? What is lost/gained in the process of adaptation to film?Re-interpreting the contemporary film musical as a compelling art form, Twenty-First Century Musicals is a must-read for any student or scholar keen to broaden their understanding of musical performance.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Twenty-First Century Musicals' stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading contemporary shows from their stage origins to their big-screen adaptations. Each chapter offers a new perspective on a single musical, challenging populist narratives and exploring underlying narratives and sub-texts in-depth.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. vii)
- Notes on contributors (p. viii)
- Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
- Foreword (p. xv)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Drag, rock, authenticity and in-betweenness: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (p. 18)
- 2 All that jazz: the difficult journey of Chicago from stage to screen (p. 34)
- 3 Ready for his close-up: from horror to romance in The Phantom of the Opera (p. 53)
- 4 'Bohemia is dead': Rent celebrating life in the face of death (p. 66)
- 5 Where did we go right (and wrong)?: success and failure in the adaptations of The Producers from and to the screen (p. 80)
- 6 'Big, as in large, as in huge': Dreamgirls and difference in the performance of gender, blackness, and popular music history (p. 94)
- 7 At the Intersection of music, sexuality and race: Hairspray's generic and aesthetic variances (p. 110)
- 8 'With a bit of rock music, everything is fine': Mamma Mia! and the camp sensibility on screen (p. 121)
- 9 81/2 to Nine to Nine: evolutions of a cinema classic (p. 135)
- 10 'You wanna hear the real story?': (mis)remembering masculinity in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Jersey Boys (p. 149)
- 11 The ethical exculpation of moral turpitude: representations of violence and death in Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods (p. 164)
- 12 The Last Five Years; medium, mode and the making of Cathy (p. 181)
- 13 The trouble with 'Little Girls': Annie on the big (and small) screen (p. 196)
- 14 London Road: the 'irruption of the real' and haunting Utopias in the verbatim musical (p. 212)
- Conclusions (p. 230)
- Index (p. 233)
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