Twenty-first century musicals : from stage to screen / edited by George Rodosthenous.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
  • ©2018
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xvi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at landing 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 sub-texts in depth. Themes of national identity; race, class and gender; the 'voice' and 'singing live' on film; authenticity; camp sensibilities; and the celebrationof 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. -- from back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Drag, rock, authenticity and in-betweenness: Hedwig and the angry inch / Dominic Symonds
    • All that jazz: the difficult journey of Chicago from stage to screen / Robert Gordon
    • Ready for his close-up: from horror to romance in The phantom of the opera / Jessica Sternfeld
    • "Bohemia is dead": Rent celebrating life in the face of death / Mark Shields
    • Where did we go right (and wrong)?: success and failure in the adaptations of The producers from and to the screen / Julian Woolford
    • "Big, as in large, as in huge": Dreamgirls and difference in the performance of gender, blackness, and popular music history / Todd Decker
    • At the intersection of music, sexuality and race: Hairspray's generic and aesthetic variances / Linda Mokdad
    • "With a bit of rock music, everything is fine": Mamma Mia! and the camp sensibility on screen / Helen Deborah Lewis
    • 8 1/2 to Nine to Nine: evolutions of a cinema classic / Arthur Pritchard
    • "You wanna hear the real story?: (mis)remembering masculinity in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Jersey Boys / Sarah Whitfield
    • The ethical exculpation of moral turpitude: representations of violence and death in Sweeney Todd and Into the woods / Tim Stephenson
    • The last five years: medium, mode and the making of Cathy / Sarah Browne
    • The trouble with "Little girls": Annie on the big (and small) screen / Olaf Jubin
    • London Road: the "irruption of the real" and haunting utopias in the verbatim musical / Demetric Zavros.
    Other title(s)
    21st century musicals
    ISBN
    • 9781138648906 ((hardback))
    • 1138648906 ((hardback))
    • 9781138648890 ((paperback))
    • 1138648892 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2017013965
    OCLC
    978842114
    Other standard number
    • 40027611573
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