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About This Book
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. Themes of national identity; race, class and gender; the 'voice' and 'singing live' on film; authenticity; camp sensibilities; and the celebration of failure are addressed in a series of questions including:
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- How does the film adaptation provide a different viewing experience from the stage version?
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- What themes are highlighted in the film adaptation?
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- What does the new casting bring to the work?
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- Do camera angles dictate a different reading from the stage version?
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- 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Drag, rock, authenticity and in-betweenness: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- 2 All that jazz: the difficult journey of Chicago from stage to screen
- 3 Ready for his close-up: from horror to romance in The Phantom of the Opera
- 4 âBohemia is deadâ: Rent celebrating life in the face of death
- 5 Where did we go right (and wrong)?: success and failure in the adaptations of The Producers from and to the screen
- 6 âBig, as in large, as in hugeâ: Dreamgirls and difference in the performance of gender, blackness, and popular music history
- 7 At the Intersection of music, sexuality and race: Hairsprayâs generic and aesthetic variances
- 8 âWith a bit of rock music, everything is fineâ: Mamma Mia! and the camp sensibility on screen
- 9 8½ to Nine to Nine: evolutions of a cinema classic
- 10 âYou wanna hear the real story?â: (mis)remembering masculinity in Clint Eastwoodâs adaptation of Jersey Boys
- 11 The ethical exculpation of moral turpitude: representations of violence and death in Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods
- 12 The Last Five Years: medium, mode and the making of Cathy
- 13 The trouble with âLittle Girlsâ: Annie on the big (and small) screen
- 14 London Road: the âirruption of the realâ and haunting utopias in the verbatim musical
- Conclusions
- Index