"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 i…
"Unique...thorough and well researched...comprehensive"--Film & History. This work examines the subjects, themes, and contemporary relevance of Hollywood musicals through their long popularity, placing each show in historical and political context and analyzing it in detail.
"This work examines the subjects, themes, and contemporary relevance of Hollywood musicals, analyzing each show in historical and political context." "Golddiggers of 1933 (1933) and Stand Up and Cheer (1934) deal with the economic crises of the Depression. Race issues surface in…
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fromIn Focus--Routledge Film Readers
This book explores one of the most popular genres in film history. The mainstay of film production throughout the studio era, the musical endures today though animated features, teen dance films, and features such as Evita and Moulin Rouge. Combining classic and recent articles,…
The articles in this collection examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis and the representation of race and ethnicity.
In her pioneering study, "Music in the shadows", film noir expert Sheri Chinen Biesen explores musical films that use film noir style and bluesy strains of jazz to inhabit a disturbing underworld and reveal the dark side of fame and the American dream. While many musicals glamor…
"An analysis of Hollywood films that blend elements of musicals and film noir, from the author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir. Welcome to the world of "noir musical"#x9D; films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and str…
"Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. R…
