附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
Entertainment and utopia / Richard Dyer -- The self-reflective musical and the myth of entertainment / Jane Feuer -- The American film musical as dual-focus narrative / Rick Altman -- Busby Berkeley and the backstage musical / Martin Rubin -- Sexual economics, Gold diggers of 1933 / Patricia Mellencamp -- Pre-text and text in Gentlemen prefer blondes / Lucie Arbuthnot and Gail Seneca -- "Feminizing" the song-and-dance man, Fred Astaire and the spectacle of masculinity in the Hollywood musical / Steven Cohan -- Judy Garland and camp / Richard Dyer -- "Working like a homosexual", camp visual codes and the labor of gay subjects in the MGM Freed Unit / Matthew Tinkcom -- Feminist camp in Gold diggers of 1933 / Pamela Robertson -- "The lady in the tutti-frutti hat", Carmen Miranda, a spectacle of ethnicity / Shari Roberts -- Dancin' in the rain / Carol J. Clover -- New Deal blackface / Michael Rogin -- Beautiful white bodies / Linda Mizejewski.
摘要:The articles in this collection examine the musical in relation to its generic form and conventions, the relationship between narrative and spectacle, gender and feminist analysis and the representation of race and ethnicity.
