Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading 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 narratives and sub-texts in-depth.
Twenty-First Century Musicals stakes a place for the musical in today's cinematic landscape, taking a look at leading 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 narratives and sub-texts in-depth.
George Rodosthenous is Associate Professor in Theatre Directing at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword - Barry Keith Grant Introduction - George Rodosthenous 1. Drag, rock, authenticity and in-betweenness: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) 2. All That Jazz: the difficult journey of Chicago (2002) from stage to screen 3. Ready for His Close-Up: From Horror to Romance in The Phantom of the Opera (2004) 4. "Bohemia is Dead": Rent (2005) celebrating life in the face of death 5. Where did we go right (and wrong)? Success and failure in adaptations of The Producers (2005) from and to the screen 6. "Big, as in Large, as in Huge": Dreamgirls and Difference in the Performance of Gender, Blackness, and Popular Music History 7. At the Intersection of Music, Sexuality and Race: Hairspray's Generic and Aesthetic Variances 8. "With a Bit of Rock Music, Everything is Fine": MAMMA MIA! (2008) and the Camp Sensibility on screen 9. 8¿ to Nine to Nine: Evolutions of a Cinema Classic 10. 'You wanna hear the real story?': (Mis)remembering masculinity in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Jersey Boys (2014) 11. The Ethical Exculpation of Moral Turpitude: Representations of Violence and Death in Sweeney Todd and Into The Woods 12. The Last Five Years (2014): Medium, Mode and the Making of Cathy. 13. The Trouble with "Little Girls": Annie on the big (and small) screen 14. London Road: the 'irruption of the real' and haunting utopias in the verbatim musical.
Foreword - Barry Keith Grant Introduction - George Rodosthenous 1. Drag, rock, authenticity and in-betweenness: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) 2. All That Jazz: the difficult journey of Chicago (2002) from stage to screen 3. Ready for His Close-Up: From Horror to Romance in The Phantom of the Opera (2004) 4. "Bohemia is Dead": Rent (2005) celebrating life in the face of death 5. Where did we go right (and wrong)? Success and failure in adaptations of The Producers (2005) from and to the screen 6. "Big, as in Large, as in Huge": Dreamgirls and Difference in the Performance of Gender, Blackness, and Popular Music History 7. At the Intersection of Music, Sexuality and Race: Hairspray's Generic and Aesthetic Variances 8. "With a Bit of Rock Music, Everything is Fine": MAMMA MIA! (2008) and the Camp Sensibility on screen 9. 8¿ to Nine to Nine: Evolutions of a Cinema Classic 10. 'You wanna hear the real story?': (Mis)remembering masculinity in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Jersey Boys (2014) 11. The Ethical Exculpation of Moral Turpitude: Representations of Violence and Death in Sweeney Todd and Into The Woods 12. The Last Five Years (2014): Medium, Mode and the Making of Cathy. 13. The Trouble with "Little Girls": Annie on the big (and small) screen 14. London Road: the 'irruption of the real' and haunting utopias in the verbatim musical.
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