Film's Musical Moments »

Ian Conrich is senior lecturer in film studies, Roehampton University. Estella Tincknell is associate head of the School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England.

The authors are concerned with both the relationship between performance, music, and film and the specificity of national, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Subjects include: cinematic representations of music forms; celebrities, fan culture, and intertextuality; the importance of popular music and the soundtrack movie; and specific national contexts.

Acknowledgements     vii
Illustrations     viii
Contributors     x
Introduction     1
Music, Film, Culture     15
Jazz, Ideology and the Animated Cartoon   Barry Keith Grant     17
A Short History of the Big Band Musical   James Chapman     28
Television, the Pop Industry and the Hollywood Musical   John Mundy     42
The Operatic in New German Cinema   Ulrike Sieglohr     56
Stars, Performance and Reception     69
Jack Buchanan and British Musical Comedy of the 1930s   Andrew Spicer     71
Star Personae and Authenticity in the Country Music Biopic   Bruce Babington     84
Stardom, Reception and the ABBA 'Musical'   Jonathan Rayner     99
The Post-Classical Hollywood Musical     113
Musical Performance and the Cult Film Experience   Ian Conrich     115
The Soundtrack Movie, Nostalgia and Consumption   Estella Tincknell     132
Youth, Excess and the Musical Moment   Scott Henderson     146
Music, Film and Post-Stonewall Gay Identity   Gregory Woods   Tim Franks     158
Beyond Hollywood     169
Early Danish Musical Comedies, 1931-9   Niels Hartvigson     171
Film Musicals in the GDR   Andrea Rinke     183
Music in the Bollywood Film   Heather Tyrrell   Rajinder Dudrah     195
Bibliography     209
Index     218