The American musical and the performance of personal identity /

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The American musical has long provided an important vehicle through which writers, performers, and audiences reimagine who they are and how they might best interact with the world around them. Musicals are especially good at this because they provide not only an opportunity for us to enact dramatic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knapp, Raymond
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Musicals > United States > History and criticism.
Musicals > Social aspects > United States.
Personality and culture.
Musical films > United States > History and criticism.
Comédies musicales > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Personnalité et culture.
Films musicaux > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Musicals.
Musical films
Motion pictures
Musicals
Personality and culture
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Personal genres. The Viennese connection : Franz Lehár and American operetta (The merry widow (1907). Naughty Marietta (1910). Little Mary Sunshine (1959). A little night music (1973))
  • The movie musical (Singin' in the rain (film, 1952). Stormy weather (film, 1943) and Bamboozled (film, 2000). Meet me in St. Louis (film, 1944). Moulin Rouge (film, 2001) and Chicago (film, 2002)).

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