Cohan Incongruous Entertainment

Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8707-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 378 Seiten

A look at the camp cult appeal of MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s to gay men today, along with an historical analysis of the films’ production histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohan, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Musicals

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Improbable Stuff: Camp and the MGM House Style 41

2. The Lady is a Camp: Glamour, Star Turns, and the Boys in the Chorus 88

3. Dancing with Balls: Sissies, Sailors, and the Camp Masculinity of Gene Kelly 149

4. What a Glorious Classic: Singin’ in the Rain and Mass-Camp Recycling 200

5. Hollywood’s Most Precious Jewels: The MGM Musical’s Return As a Camp Commodity 246

6. Judy on the Net: Garland, Camp, and Contemporary Fandom 287

Conclusion 337

Notes 343

Works Cited 353

Index 361

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Cohan is Professor of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties; the editor of Hollywood Musicals: The Film Reader; and a coeditor of The Road Movie Book and Screening the Male: Exploring Masculinities in Hollywood Cinema.