The Sound of Musicals.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: How Do You Solve a Problem Like the FilmMusical? -- PART ONE: Genre Matters -- 1 From Homosocial to Heterosexual: The Musical's Two Projects -- 2 British Gaiety: Musical Cinema and the Theatrical Tradition in British Film -- 3 The Mellifluous 'Illogics' of the 'Bollywood Musical' -- 4 The International Art Musical: Defining and Periodising Post-1980s Musicals -- PART TWO: Histories of the Hollywood Musical -- 5 Flirting with Terpsichore: Dance, Class and Entertainment in 1930s Film Musicals -- 6 Star Spangled Shows: Utopia and History in the Wartime Canteen Musical -- 7 Sailors and Kissing Bandits: The Challenging Spectacle of Frank Sinatra at MGM -- 8 Bloody Mary Is the Girl I Love: US White Liberalism vs. Pacific Islander Subjectivity in South Pacific -- 9 The Singing Sixties: Rethinking the Julie Andrews Roadshow Musical -- 10 The Streisand Musical -- PART THREE: Beyond Classic Hollywood -- 11 The Music and Musicality of Bollywood -- 12 Robert Altman and the New Hollywood Musical -- 13 The Musical as Mode: Community Formation and Alternative Rock in Empire Records -- 14 'A Musical Dressed up in a Different Way': Urban Ireland and the Possible Spaces of John Carney's Once -- 15 Christophe Honoré's Les Chansons d'amour and the Musical's Queer-abilities -- 16 'Dozing Off During History': Hairspray's Iterations and the Gift of Black Music -- Index.

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