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The Migration of Musical Film

Author : Desirée J. Garcia
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813568669

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The Migration of Musical Film by Desirée J. Garcia Pdf

Movie musicals are among the most quintessentially American art forms, often celebrating mobility, self-expression, and the pursuit of one’s dreams. But like America itself, the Hollywood musical draws from many distinct ethnic traditions. In this illuminating new study, Desirée J. Garcia examines the lesser-known folk musicals from early African American, Yiddish, and Mexican filmmakers, revealing how these were essential ingredients in the melting pot of the Hollywood musical. The Migration of Musical Film shows how the folk musical was rooted in the challenges faced by immigrants and migrants who had to adapt to new environments, balancing American individualism with family values and cultural traditions. Uncovering fresh material from film industry archives, Garcia considers how folk musicals were initially marginal productions, designed to appeal to specific minority audiences, and yet introduced themes that were gradually assimilated into the Hollywood mainstream. No other book offers a comparative historical study of the folk musical, from the first sound films in the 1920s to the genre’s resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s. Using an illustrative rather than comprehensive approach, Garcia focuses on significant moments in the sub-genre and rarely studied films such as Allá en el Rancho Grande along with familiar favorites that drew inspiration from earlier folk musicals—everything from The Wizard of Oz to Zoot Suit. If you think of movie musicals simply as escapist mainstream entertainment, The Migration of Musical Film is sure to leave you singing a different tune.

The Movie Musical

Author : Desirée J. Garcia
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781978803787

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"With the release of each new musical film, critics ask, "Has the musical returned?" The very frequency of the question would seem to belie its implication. Indeed, while musicals have changed over time, they have never truly gone away. This point becomes especially clear if we look beyond the "golden age" of the 1940s and 50s, beyond Hollywood, and even beyond the United States. The Movie Musical is a thematic exploration of the genre with a focus on how the musical changes and adapts in order to preserve its own relevance. From The Jazz Singer (1927), The Sound of Music (1965) to La La Land (2016) and The Greatest Showman (2017) and many more, the book traverses time and space, from the classical period of musical film production at midcentury to the present, and from Hollywood to Europe, the United Kingdom, and Asia. Chapters explore the genre as an archive of its own formation, its engagement with race, ethnicity, and gender, and its relationship to ever evolving technologies and media. Ultimately, the book tells a story of the musical's evolution that denies the familiar narrative that the genre is in crisis; instead, The Movie Musical demonstrates that, if we look beyond the familiar places, we see that the musical is dynamic, capacious, and always with us"--

Film Music in the Sound Era

Author : Jonathan Rhodes Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000091281

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Film Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927–2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film. This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the industry. A complete index is included in each volume.

The Cambridge Companion to Film Music

Author : Mervyn Cooke,Fiona Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107094512

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The Cambridge Companion to Film Music by Mervyn Cooke,Fiona Ford Pdf

A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.

When Music Takes Over in Film

Author : Anna K. Windisch,Claus Tieber,Phil Powrie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030891558

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When Music Takes Over in Film by Anna K. Windisch,Claus Tieber,Phil Powrie Pdf

This open access collection deals with musical moments in film as one of the most pivotal and compelling issues of current film music research. Musical moments as defined by Amy Herzog occur when a musical number inverts the normal relationship between the image track and the soundtrack in a film in such a way that what we see is determined by what we hear. As one potential approach, this definition provokes a variety of perspectives to investigate the disruptive potential of these moments and numbers as a creative device in the production of audiovisual narratives. In this sense, the book responds to a need for an anthology that introduces students as well as scholars of cinema, musicology, media studies and cultural studies more broadly, to recent discourses in film music scholarship. The volume includes contributions by early career researchers as well as by established experts in the fields of musicology, film studies, media studies, and cultural studies, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration in film music research.

The Movie Musical

Author : Desirée J. Garcia
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978803800

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The Movie Musical by Desirée J. Garcia Pdf

Putting Asian and European musicals into conversation with Hollywood classics like Singin’ in the Rain and La La Land, this study demonstrates the flexibility and durability of the genre. It explores how the movie musical mediates between nostalgia and technical innovation, while foregrounding the experiences of women, immigrants, and people of color.

The Pop Musical

Author : Alberto Mira
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231549295

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After Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley’s iron grip on the movie musical began to slip in the face of pop’s cultural dominance, many believed that the musical genre entered a terminal decline and finally wore itself out by the 1980s. Though the industrial model of the musical was disrupted by the emergence of pop, the Hollywood musical has not gone extinct. Many Hollywood productions from the 1960s to the present have revisited the forms and conventions of the classic musical—except instead of drawing from showtunes and jazz standards, they employ the styles and iconography of pop. Alberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywood system ceased producing large-scale traditional musicals, different pop strains—disco, rock ’n’ roll, doo-wop, glam, and hip-hop—renewed the genre, giving it a new life. While the classical musical presented a world light on conflict, defined by theatricality and where effortless talent can shine through, the introduction of pop spurred musicals to address contemporary social and political conditions. Mira traces the emergence of a new set of themes—such as the painful hard work depicted in Dirty Dancing (1987); the double-edged fandom of Velvet Goldmine (1998); and the racial politics of Dreamgirls (2006)—to explore why the Hollywood musical has found renewed relevance.

Listen to Movie Musicals!

Author : James E. Perone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9798216111955

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Listen to Movie Musicals! by James E. Perone Pdf

Listen to Movie Musicals! provides an overview of musical theater on film for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicals featured in movies. Listen to Movie Musicals! includes an overview of musical theatre and movie musicals in the United States. The 50 movies chosen for critical analysis include many of the best-known film musicals of the past and present; however, the list also includes several important movie musicals that were popular successes that are not necessarily on the "best-of" lists in other books. This volume also includes a greater focus on the actual music of movie musicals than do most other books, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers. Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 important essays on must-hear movie musicals of approximately 1,500 words each. Chapters on the impact of movie musicals on popular culture and the legacy of movie musicals further explain the impact of both the movies and their songs.

Contemporary Musical Film

Author : K. J. Donnelly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474413138

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Contemporary Musical Film by K. J. Donnelly Pdf

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.

Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897–2017

Author : John O'Flynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351357869

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Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897–2017 by John O'Flynn Pdf

Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897–2017 constitutes the first comprehensive study of music for screen productions from or relating to the island. It identifies and interprets tendencies over the first 120 years of a field comprising the relatively distinct yet often overlapping areas of Irish-themed and Irish-produced film. Dividing into three parts, the book first explores accompaniments and scores for 20th-century Irish-themed narrative features that resulted in significant contributions by many Hollywood, British, continental European and, to a lesser extent, Irish composers, along with the input of many orchestras and other musicians. Its second part is framed by a consideration of various cultural, political and economic developments in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland from the 1920s (including the Troubles of 1968–1998). Focusing on scoring and other aspects of soundtrack production for domestic newsreel, documentary film and TV programming, it interprets the substantial output of many Irish composers within this milieu, particularly from the 1960s to the 1990s. Also referring to broader cultural and historical themes, the book’s third and final part charts approaches to and developments in music and sound design over various waves of Irish cinema, from its relatively late emergence in the 1970s to an exponential growth and increasingly transnational orientation in the early decades of the 21st century.

Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles

Author : Colin Gunckel,Jan-Christopher Horak,Lisa Jarvinen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978801264

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Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles by Colin Gunckel,Jan-Christopher Horak,Lisa Jarvinen Pdf

Historically, Los Angeles and its exhibition market have been central to the international success of Latin American cinema. Not only was Los Angeles a site crucial for exhibition of these films, but it became the most important hub in the western hemisphere for the distribution of Spanish language films made for Latin American audiences. Cinema between Latin America and Los Angeles builds upon this foundational insight to both examine the considerable, ongoing role that Los Angeles played in the history of Spanish-language cinema and to explore the implications of this transnational dynamic for the study and analysis of Latin American cinema before 1960. The volume editors aim to flesh out the gaps between Hollywood and Latin America, American imperialism and Latin American nationalism in order to produce a more nuanced view of transnational cultural relations in the western hemisphere.

The Films of Arturo Ripstein

Author : Manuel Gutiérrez Silva,Luis Duno Gottberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030229566

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The Films of Arturo Ripstein by Manuel Gutiérrez Silva,Luis Duno Gottberg Pdf

This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein. The collection, the first of its kind, constitutes a sustained critical engagement with the twenty-nine films made by this highly acclaimed yet under-studied filmmaker. The eleven essays included come from scholars whose work stands at the intersection of the fields of Latin American and Mexican Film Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Cultural Studies, History and Literary studies. Ripstein’s films, often scripted by his long-time collaborator, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, represent an unprecedented achievement in Mexican and Latin American film. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ripstein has successfully maintained a prolific output unmatched by any director in the region. Though several book-length studies have been published in Spanish, French, German, and Greek, to date no analogue exists in English. This volume provides a much-needed contribution to the field.

Free and Easy?

Author : Sean Griffin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781405194952

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Free and Easy? by Sean Griffin Pdf

A History of the American Musical narrates the evolution of the film musical genre, discussing its influences and how it has come to be defined; the first text on this subject for over two decades, it employs the very latest concepts and research. The most up-to-date text on the subject, with uniquely comprehensive coverage and employing the very latest concepts and research Surveys centuries of music history from the music and dance of Native Americans to contemporary music performance in streaming media Examines the different ways the film musical genre has been defined, what gets counted as a musical, why, and who gets to make that decision The text is written in an accessible manner for general cinema and musical theatre buffs, whilst retaining theoretical rigour in research Describes the contributions made to the genre by marginalized or subordinated identity groups who have helped invent and shape the musical

Musicals at the Margins

Author : Julie Lobalzo Wright,Martha Shearer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501357107

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Musicals at the Margins by Julie Lobalzo Wright,Martha Shearer Pdf

But is it a musical? This question is regularly asked of films, television shows and other media objects that sit uncomfortably in the category despite evident musical connections. Musicals at the Margins argues that instead of seeking to resolve such questions, we should leave them unanswered and unsettled, proposing that there is value in examining the unstable edges of genre. This collection explores the marginal musical in a diverse range of historical and global contexts. It encompasses a range of different forms of marginality including boundary texts (films/media that are sort of/not quite musicals), musical sequences (marginalized sequences in musicals; musical sequences in non-musicals), music films, musicals of the margins (musicals produced from social, cultural, geographical, and geopolitical margins), and musicals across media (television and new media). Ultimately these essays argue that marginal genre texts tell us a great deal about the musical specifically and genre more broadly.