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The Hollywood Film Musical

Author : Barry Keith Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405182539
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Film Musical written by Barry Keith Grant and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing history of the American film musical synthesizes the critical literature on the genre and provides a series of close analytical readings of iconic musical films, focusing on their cultural relationship to other aspects of American popular music. Offers a depth of scholarship that will appeal to students and scholars Leads a crucial analysis of the cultural context of musicals, particularly the influence of popular music on the genre Delves into critical issues behind these films such as race, gender, ideology, and authorship Features close readings of canonical and neglected film musicals from the 1930s to the present including: Top Hat, Singin' in the Rain, Woodstock, Gimme Shelter, West Side Story, and Across the Universe

The Hollywood Musical

Author : Jane Feuer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253207685
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Musical written by Jane Feuer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... both fresh and informed, as well as a pleasure to read. --Film Quarterly Since 1982, when this book first appeared, the Hollywood musical has undergone a rebirth, with the rise of teen musicals such as Dirty Dancing and Flashdance. In a chapter written especially for this second edition of her well-known study, Jane Feuer shows how this new development in the genre relates to important changes in the cinema audience itself. It is the text for the study of Hollywood musicals.

Hollywood Musicals, the Film Reader

Author : Steven Cohan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415235594
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Musicals, the Film Reader written by Steven Cohan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores one of the most popular genres in film history. Combining classic and recent articles, each section explores a central issue of the musical, including: the musical's significance as a genre; the musical's own particular representation of sexual difference; the idea of camp, both through stars such as Judy Garland and Carmen Miranda and musicals themselves; and the displacement of race in Hollywood's representations of entertainment. Each section features an editor's introduction setting debates in context.

Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical

Author : K. Kessler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230290558
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical written by K. Kessler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!.

The Movie Musical!

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101874066
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Movie Musical! written by Jeanine Basinger and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies. Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her trademark wit and zest, the whole story of the Hollywood musical--in the most telling, most incisive, most detailed, most gorgeously illustrated book of her long and remarkable career. From Fred Astaire, whom she adores, to La La Land, which she deplores, Basinger examines a dazzling array of stars, strategies, talents, and innovations in the history of musical cinema. Whether analyzing a classic Gene Kelly routine, relishing a Nelson-Jeanette operetta, or touting a dynamic hip hop number (in the underrated Idlewild), she is a canny and charismatic guide to the many ways that song and dance have been seen--and heard--on film. With extensive portraits of everyone from Al Jolson, the Jazz Singer; to Doris Day, whose iconic sunniness has overshadowed her dramatic talents; from Deanna Durbin, that lovable teen-star of the '30s and '40s; to Shirley T. and Judy G.; from Bing to Frank to Elvis; from Ann Miller to Ann-Margret; from Disney to Chicago . . . focusing on many beloved, iconic films (Top Hat; Singin' in the Rain; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Sound of Music) as well as unduly obscure gems (Eddie Cantor's Whoopee!; Murder at the Vanities; Sun Valley Serenade; One from the Heart), this book is astute, informative, and pure pleasure to read.

The First Hollywood Musicals

Author : Edwin M. Bradley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786420292
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The First Hollywood Musicals written by Edwin M. Bradley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-08-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Hollywood entered the sound era, it was rightly determined that the same public fascinated by the novelty of the talkie would be dazzled by the spectacle of a song and dance film. In 1929 and 1930, film musicals became the industry's most lucrative genre--until the greedy studios almost killed the genre by glutting the market with too many films that looked and sounded like clones of each other. From the classy movies such as Sunnyside Up and Hallelujah! to failures such as The Lottery Bride and Howdy Broadway, this filmography details 171 early Hollywood musicals. Arranged by subgenre (backstagers, operettas, college films, and stage-derived musical comedies), the entries include studio, release date, cast and credits, running time, a complete song list, any recordings spawned by the film, Academy Award nominations and winners, and availability on video or laserdisc. These data are followed by a plot synopsis, including analysis of the film's place in the genre's history. Includes over 90 photographs.

Hollywood Musicals

Author : Steven Cohan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351018728
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Musicals written by Steven Cohan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audiences today. What is a film musical? How do musicals work, formally and culturally? Why have they endured since the introduction of sound in the late 1920s? What makes them more than glittery surfaces or escapist fare? In answering such questions, this guidebook by Steven Cohan takes new and familiar viewers on a tour of Hollywood musicals. Chapters discuss definitions of the genre, its long history, different modes of analyzing it, the great stars of the classic era, and auteur directors. Highlights include extended discussions of such celebrated musicals from the studio era as The Love Parade, Top Hat, Holiday Inn, Stormy Weather, The Gang’s All Here, Meet Me in St. Louis, Cover Girl, Mother Wore Tights, Singin’ in the Rain, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Band Wagon, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Jailhouse Rock as well as later films such as Cabaret, All that Jazz, Beauty and the Beast, and La La Land. Cohan brings in numerous other examples that amplify and extend to the present day his claims about the musical, its generic coherence and flexibility, its long and distinguished history, its special appeal, and its cultural significance. Clear and accessible, this guide provides students of film and culture with a succinct but substantial overview that provides both analysis and intersectional context to one of Hollywood’s most beloved genres.

Hollywood Musicals

Author : Ken Bloom
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781579128487
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Musicals written by Ken Bloom and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an alphabetical survey of the most popular film musicals in history, with commentaries, synopses, behind-the-scenes information, and lists of songs and cast members for each film.

Hearing Film

Author : Anahid Kassabian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135957207
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Film written by Anahid Kassabian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical examination of music in the films of the 1980s and 1990s looks at the burgeoning role of compiled scores in the shaping of a film. The role of music in films is analysed in terms of gender, race, desire and identity.

International Film Musical

Author : Corey K Creekmur
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654305
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book International Film Musical written by Corey K Creekmur and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition.

The Hollywood Film Music Reader

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195331184
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Hollywood Film Music Reader written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging, stimulating, and entertaining anthology of writings about the experiences of composers working in the high-pressure environment of the US film industry from the silent era to the present day includes both vivid first-hand accounts from the composers themselves and a representative selection of contemporaneous criticism and commentary.

Hollywood Musicals

Author : Ted Sennett
Publisher : Abradale/Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810980709
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Musicals written by Ted Sennett and published by Abradale/Abrams. This book was released on 1981 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly America's greatest gift to popular culture is defined, analyzed, and annotated in this comprehensive and profusely illustrated history of the musical film from 1927 to the present

Settling the Score

Author : Kathryn Kalinak
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029913363X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Settling the Score written by Kathryn Kalinak and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film. Focusing on the scores of several key composers of the sound era, including Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Captain Blood, Max Steiner’s The Informer, Bernard Herrmann’s The Magnificent Ambersons, and David Raksin’s Laura, Kalinak concludes that classical scoring conventions were designed to ensure the dominance of narrative exposition. Her analyses of contemporary work such as John Williams’ The Empire Strikes Back and Basil Poledouris’ RoboCop demonstrate how the traditions of the classical era continue to influence scoring practices today.

Hollywood Harmony

Author : Frank Lehman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190606398
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood Harmony written by Frank Lehman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely musical experience, one in which the soundtrack structures our interpretations and steers our emotions. Hollywood Harmony explores the inner workings of film music, bringing together tools from music theory, musicology, and music psychology in this first ever book-length analytical study of this culturally central repertoire. Harmony, and especially chromaticism, is emblematic of the "film music sound," and it is often used to evoke that most cinematic of feelings-wonder. To help parse this familiar but complex musical style, Hollywood Harmony offers a first-of-its kind introduction to neo-Riemannian theory, a recently developed and versatile method of understanding music as a dynamic and transformational process, rather than a series of inert notes on a page. This application of neo-Riemannian theory to film music is perfect way in for curious newcomers, while also constituting significant scholarly contribution to the larger discipline of music theory. Author Frank Lehman draws from his extensive knowledge of cinematic history with case-studies that range from classics of Golden Age Hollywood to massive contemporary franchises to obscure cult-films. Special emphasis is placed on scores for major blockbusters such as Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Inception. With over a hundred meticulously transcribed music examples and more than two hundred individual movies discussed, Hollywood Harmony will fascinate any fan of film and music.

Music on Demand

Author : Robert R. Faulkner
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412829232
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Music on Demand written by Robert R. Faulkner and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Synergy of Film and Music

Author : Peter Rothbart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810887592
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Synergy of Film and Music written by Peter Rothbart and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although writers on film music frequently allude to specific parts of scores, comprehensive examinations of entire scores are rare. In addition, most analyses of scores composed for the screen are discussed outside their cinematic context. To best understand the role music plays in the production of a motion picture, however, it benefits the viewer to consider all of the elements that comprise the film experience. In The Synergy of Film and Music: Sight and Sound in Five Hollywood Films, Peter Rothbart considers the aural and visual aspects of five representative films: West Side Story, Psycho, Empire of the Sun, Altered States, and American Beauty. For each film, the author demonstrates how a variety of elements work together to create a singular experience. After reviewing the various roles that music can serve in a film, as well as providing an overview of the film scoring process, Rothbart looks at each film, examining them one musical cue at a time, so the reader can watch the film while reading about each cue. In these analyses, timecode markings from commercial DVDs are provided in the margins alongside the text, which allow the reader to correlate the on-screen drama to the second. Rothbart explains how music is used in a specific cue and why the decision was made to use that particular musical idea at that moment. Consequently, film music aficionados--as well as students and composers of film music--can gain real-world perspective of how music is used in conjunction with other elements. In this way, the author raises awareness of music's relationship to virtually every other aspect of cinema--dialogue, sound effects, costuming, set design, and cinematography--to deepen the viewer's experience. Written in a deliberately nontechnical way, this book is intended for anyone interested in film to easily follow along. At the same time, the information can benefit professional filmmakers or composers because they can see with great detail how each cue unfolds along with all of the visual elements of the film. This unique analysis makes The Synergy of Film and Music a fascinating and instructive volume that both casual viewers and students of cinema will appreciate.

Contemporary Musical Film

Author : Kevin J. Donnelly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474413145
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Musical Film written by Kevin J. Donnelly and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen musical. This edited collection, bringing together a number of international scholars, 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). Looking at the varying aesthetic function of soundtrack and lyric in films like Disney's wildly popular Frozen (2013) and the Fast and the Furious franchise, or the self-reflexive commentary of the 'post-millennial rock musical', this wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in its study of this multifaceted genre.