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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813419403321

Autore

Donnelly K. J.

Titolo

Contemporary musical film / / edited by K.J. Donnelly and Beth Carroll [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-4744-1313-7

1-4744-1314-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Music and the moving image

Disciplina

791.4375

Soggetti

Musical films - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION: REIMAGINING THE CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- PART ONE. ORIGINAL MUSICALS -- 1 AESTHETIC ABSURDITIES IN TAKASHI MIIKE’S THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS -- 2 FILM AND THE TWILIGHT OF ROCK (ROCK IS DEAD AND FILM KILLED IT): POST-MILLENNIAL ROCK MUSICALS -- 3 TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE: DUPLICITOUS VOICES OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL SPY MUSICAL -- 4 THE ANTI-MUSICAL OR GENERIC AFFINITY: IS THERE ANYTHING LEFT TO SAY? -- 5 ‘IS THIS REAL ENOUGH FOR YOU?’: LYRICAL ARTICULATION OF THE BEATLES’ SONGS IN ACROSS THE UNIVERSE -- 6 ‘LOVE IS AN OPEN DOOR’: REVISING AND REPEATING DISNEY’S MUSICAL TROPES IN FROZEN -- PART TWO STAGE TO SCREEN -- 7 STAR QUALITY? SONG, CELEBRITY AND THE JUKEBOX MUSICAL IN MAMMA MIA! -- 8 BEYOND THE BARRICADE: ADAPTING LES MISÉRABLES FOR THE CINEMA -- PART THREE. MUSICALS BY ANOTHER NAME -- 9 O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?: THE COEN BROTHERS AND THE MUSICAL GENRE CONTAMINATION -- 10 RACING IN THE BEAT: MUSIC IN THE FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISE -- 11 KILL BILL: QUENTIN TARANTINO AS A MUSICAL FILMMAKER -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This edited collection looks closely at the range and scope of contemporary film musicals, from stage adaptations like Mamma Mia!



(2008) and Les Miserables (2012), to less conventional works that elide the genre, like Team America: World Police (2004) and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill (2003/04).