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Title The international film musical / edited by Corey K. Creekmur and Linda Y. Mokdad
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2012]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages)
Series Traditions in world cinema
Traditions in world cinema.
Contents pt. I: Europe. Britain / John Mundy -- France / Kelley Conway -- Germany / Antje Ascheid -- Portugal / Lisa Shaw -- Spain / Inmaculada Sánchez Alarcón -- Italy / Alex Marlow-Mann -- Greece / Lydia Papadimitriou -- Soviet Union / Richard Taylor -- pt. II: Latin America. Mexico / Ana M. López -- Brazil / João Luis Vieira -- pt. III: Asia. Japan / Aaron Gerow -- China / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- India / Michael Lawrence -- pt. IV: The Middle East. Egypt / Linda Y. Mokdad -- Turkey / Nezih Erdoǧan -- pt. V: Hollywood and the world. The post-modern transnational film musical / Björn Norðfjörð -- Coda : the musical as international genre: reading notes / Rick Altman
Summary This is a comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. While the musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres, it has often functioned as an explicitly local or national form, drawing upon distinct traditions understood as native rather than international
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Musical films -- History and criticism.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Musical films
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Creekmur, Corey K., editor.
Mokdad, Linda Y., editor.
ISBN 9780748634781
0748634789
9780748654307
0748654305
1784023345
9781784023348