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Top Hat

By Diane Negra , Yvonne Tasker(eds.) , Peter William Evans(auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2010
ISBN
9781405188296, 9781444325348
DOI
10.1002/9781444325348
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2726472 bytes)
Pages
138\138
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

Description

Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a comprehensive survey of the film's production, promotion and reception, all measured against the background of 1930s socio-political contexts in the USA Explores the musical genre and questions of (gendered) national identity, romance, subjectivity and the notion of the couple Written in a clear, accessible style, Top Hat probes text and context carefully to appeal to the student and teacher of the musical and of Hollywood film history, as well as the film-loving general reader Content: Chapter 1 The Making of Top Hat (pages 6–18): Chapter 2 Fred Astaire (pages 19–25): Chapter 3 Ginger Rogers (pages 26–34): Chapter 4 Introduction to Narrative and Number (pages 35–42): Chapter 5 The Numbers (pages 43–84): Chapter 6 Querying National and Sexual Identity (pages 85–100):

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