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The French Film Musical - Phil Powrie, Marie Cadalanu

The French Film Musical

Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-7387-9 (ISBN)
CHF 53,90 inkl. MwSt
Like many national cinemas, the French cinema has a rich tradition of film musicals beginning with the advent of sound to the present. This is the first book to chart the development of the French film musical.

The French film musical is remarkable for its breadth and variety since the 1930s; although it flirts with the Hollywood musical in the 1930s and again in the 1950s, it has very distinctive forms rooted in the traditions of French chanson. Defining it broadly as films attracting audiences principally because of musical performances, often by well-known singers, Phil Powrie and Marie Cadalanu show how the genre absorbs two very different traditions with the advent of sound: European operetta and French chanson inflected by American jazz (1930-1950). As the genre matures, operetta develops into big-budget spectaculars with popular tenors, and revue films also showcase major singers in this period (1940-1960). Both sub-genres collapse with the advent of rock n roll, leading to a period of experimentation during the New Wave (1960-1990). The contemporary period since 1995 renews the genre, returning nostalgically both to the genre’s origins in the 1930s, and to the musicals of Jacques Demy, but also hybridising with other genres, such as the biopic and the documentary.

Phil Powrie is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Surrey, UK. He is Chair of the British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies and Chief General Editor of Studies in French Cinema. Marie Cadalanu is an independent researcher working as a teacher in a lycée in the Paris, France area.

1. Introduction
2. Multi-language Versions
3. The French Operetta
4. Pills and Tabet and the Marseille Operetta
5. Fréhel and Édith Piaf
6. Josephine Baker and Charles Trenet
7. The Classical Music Film
8. The Big Band Film
9. The Musical Sketch Film
10. Tino Rossi
11. George Guétary and Luis Mariano
12. D’où viens-tu Johnny? and the Transition to the Modern Musical
13. Jacques Demy and the New Wave
14. The Opera Film and the Modern Classical Music Film
15. The Modern Musical
16. Nostalgia
17. Conclusion
Filmography
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 80 bw illus
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-5013-7387-0 / 1501373870
ISBN-13 978-1-5013-7387-9 / 9781501373879
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