Incongruous Entertainment : Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical /
With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made to appeal to broad, mainstream audiences. In this lively, nuanced, and provocative reassessment of th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2005]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Improbable Stuff: Camp and the MGM House Style
- Two The Lady Is a Camp: Glamour, Star Turns, and the Boys in the Chorus
- Three Dancing with Balls: Sissies, Sailors, and the Camp Masculinity of Gene Kelly
- Four What a Glorious Classic: Singin' in the Rain and Mass-Camp Recycling
- Five Hollywood's Most Precious Jewels: The mgm Musical's Return As a Camp Commodity
- Six Judy on the Net: Garland, Camp, and Contemporary Fandom
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index