Professor Alberto Mira

The Pop Musical

Sweat, Tears, and Tarnished Utopias

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Produktbeschreibung

Alberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywood system ceased producing large-scale traditional musicals, different pop strainsâ disco, rock â nâ roll, doo-wop, glam, and hip-hopâ renewed the genre, giving it a new life.

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Produktdetails

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 217mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9780231191234
• ISBN-10: 0231191235
• Artikelnr.: 60798918

Autorenporträt

Alberto Mira is reader in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the editor of The Cinema of Spain and Portugal (Wallflower, 2005) and the author of the Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema, second edition (2019), as well as several Spanish-language books.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Hollywood Musical Is Dead. Long Live the Hollywood
Musical!
1. Hollywood and the Rise of Pop Music: The Age of Elvis
2. Embracing Pop: Integrating the Pop Musical
3. Looking Back: The Pop Musical and the Past
Conclusion: Qualified Joys
Notes
Bibliography
Index