Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem

Kessler, K.

A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349311491

DOI: 10.1057/9780230290556

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 256