Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical
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Availability:In StockContributor:James PhillipsSeries:New Approaches to Sound, Music, and MediaPublish date:2025-02-20Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765124819UPC:9798765124819Book Category:Music, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Recording & Reproduction, Genres & Styles, FilmBook Topic:Musicals, Direction & ProductionSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCAFXCP6CK
Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical
Busby Berkeley's big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory.
Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in which Berkeley created spectacles that are both critical and complacent in relation to the society that produced and received them.
Berkeley carried into his images of utopia the assembly...
Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in which Berkeley created spectacles that are both critical and complacent in relation to the society that produced and received them.
Berkeley carried into his images of utopia the assembly...
Series: New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765124819UPC:9798765124819Book Category:Music, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Recording & Reproduction, Genres & Styles, FilmBook Topic:Musicals, Direction & ProductionSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCAFXCP6CK
James Phillips is Associate Professor in Philosophy at University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the author of Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (2005), The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (2007) and Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle (2019), the editor of Cinematic Thinking (2008) and co-editor, with John Severn, of Barrie Kosky's...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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