The Hollywood Film Musical
Barry Keith Grant- 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
Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including Auteurs and Authorship: a Film Reader (2008) Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Film Genre Reader (2003), and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996). As well as being an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the series editor of the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley-Blackwell.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Historical Overview
2 Critical Overview
3 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
4 Top Hat (1935)
5 The Pirate (1948)
6 West Side Story (1961) and Saturday Night Fever (1977)
7 Woodstock (1970)
8 Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
9 Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Across the Universe (2007)
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