Mira The Pop Musical

Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54929-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Short Cuts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mira, Alberto

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Hollywood Musical Is Dead. Long Live the Hollywood Musical!
1. Hollywood and the Rise of Pop Music: The Age of Elvis
2. Embracing Pop: Integrating the Pop Musical
3. Looking Back: The Pop Musical and the Past
Conclusion: Qualified Joys
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alberto Mira is reader in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the editor of The Cinema of Spain and Portugal (Wallflower, 2005) and the author of the Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema, second edition (2019) as well as several Spanish-language books.