Evans Top Hat

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2535-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Interventions: Studies in Film and Television

Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classicHollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romanceand subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between thesexes.
* Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatestmusicals, including a comprehensive survey of the film'sproduction, promotion and reception, all measured against thebackground of 1930s socio-political contexts in the USA
* Explores the musical genre and questions of (gendered) nationalidentity, romance, subjectivity and the notion of the couple
* Written in a clear, accessible style, Top Hat probes text andcontext carefully to appeal to the student and teacher of themusical and of Hollywood film history, as well as the film-lovinggeneral reader

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Peter William

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vi
Synopsis vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Making of Top Hat 6
2. Fred Astaire: "Outlaw" Stylist of the Dance 19
3. Ginger Rogers: Confirming and Defying Convention 26
4. Introduction to Narrative and Number: The Bumpy Road to Love 35
5. The Numbers 43
6. Querying National and Sexual Identity 85
Conclusion: A Perfectly Swell Romance 101
Notes 104
Bibliography 106
Index 114

Über Autor(innen)

Peter William Evans is a Professor of Film Studies, in the Department of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. His publications range from classical Hollywood (books on the musical, romantic comedy and the Biblical epic, and articles on film noir, the western and Hitchcock), British cinema (a book on Carol Reed) and Spanish cinema (books on Buñuel, Almodovar and Bigas Luna).