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Contemporary Musical Film
Edited by Kevin J. Donnelly and Beth Carroll
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A reassessment of the film musical post-2000
Since the turn of the millennium, films such as Chicago (2002) and Phantom of the Opera (2004) have reinvigorated the popularity of the screen musical. This edited collection, bringing together a number of international scholars, looks closely at the range and scope of contemporary film musicals, from stage adaptations like Mamma Mia! (2008) and Les Miserables (2012), to less conventional works that elide the genre, like Team America: World Police (2004) and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003/04). Looking at the varying aesthetic function of soundtrack and lyric in films like Disney’s wildly popular Frozen (2013) and the Fast and the Furious franchise, or the self-reflexive commentary of the ‘post-millennial rock musical’, this wide-ranging collection breaks new ground in its study of this multifaceted genre.
Case Studies:
• Camp Rock
• School of Rock
• Rock of Ages
• Romance & Cigarettes
• Frozen
• Les Miserables
• Mamma Mia!
• Fast and the Furious franchise
• Across the Universe
• The Happiness of the Katakuris
• O Brother, Where art Thou?
• Kill Bill: Volume 1
• Team America: World Police
About the authors:
Professor Kevin Donnelly is Professor of Film and Film Music at the University of Southampton. He has written or edited 12 books, including Occult Aesthetics: Sound and Image Synchronization (Oxford University Press, 2013; which received an award from the American Musicological Society), The Spectre of Sound (BFI, 2005, second edition 2020), Magical Musical Tour: Pop and Rock in Film Soundtracks (Bloomsbury, 2015; which received an award from the Southwest Popular and American Cultural Association), Pop Music in British Cinema (BFI, 2001), British Film Music and Film Musicals (Palgrave, 2007) and The Shining (Columbia University Press, 2018). He is co-series editor of EUP’s Music and the Moving Image series, and co-edited Contemporary Musical Film for the series (EUP, 2019)
Beth Carroll is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on matters relating to audiovisual media, including space, place and the body. Beth is particularly interested in sound and the impact it has on issues of immersion and phenomenology in film, videogames, and VR. She is the author of Feeling Film: A Spatial Approach and co-editor of Contemporary Musical Film.
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical
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An Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, Volume 3
Singing a Different Tune (2023)
The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context
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Race, Sexuality, and Gender and the Musical Screen Adaptation (2023)
An Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, Volume 2
The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation (2023)
An Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations
The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck (2022)
The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
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