Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical [electronic resource] : Music, Masculinity and Mayhem /
Kessler, K.author.
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!.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the musical and masculinity take a turn for the ambivalent  -- Nothing is comin' up roses : the desertion of narrative utopia -- On a clear day you can see the cracks in the scenery: visual reflexivity and realism trump nostalgic idealism -- Wanna sing and dance? These new guys are ambivalent about it -- The new guard's musical masculinity -- Epilogue : I could go on singing.
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!.
Motion pictures-History.
Motion pictures and television.
Music.
Cultural studies.
Communication.
Sociology.
Film History.
Screen Studies.
Music.
Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.
Gender Studies.