Chanteuse in the City : The Realist Singer in French Film /

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Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life, and the rough neighborhoods of Paris. Icon of working-class femininity and the underworld, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conway, Kelley, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women singers.
Popular music.
Motion pictures.
Motion picture music.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
MUSIC > Printed Music > General.
Cinema > France > Histoire.
Chanteuses > France.
Film, Musique de > France > Histoire et critique.
Musique populaire > France > Histoire et critique.
Motion pictures > France > History.
Women singers > France.
Motion picture music > France > History and criticism.
Popular music > France > History and criticism.
France.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Caf-conc' : the rise of the unruly woman
  • Music hall Miss
  • Voices from the past
  • The revue star and the realist singer : the return of the unruly woman
  • Violent spectatorship : mechanical reproduction, the female voice, and the imaginary of intimacy
  • Conclusion.

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