Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical (Music, Masculinity, and Mayhem)

Author
Kessler, Kelly
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Published
20210101
ISBN
9780230230491
ISBN registration area
English-language area (ISBN 978-0)

Description

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!.