Star Turns in Hollywood Musicals
Eds. Marguerite Chabrol and Pierre-Olivier Toulza
The Grand Collection Arts-H2H, les presses du réel, 2017.
See the Companion Website
The Grand Collection Arts-H2H, les presses du réel, 2017.
See the Companion Website
Critical edition in French of Jane Feuer "The Self-Reflective Musical and the Myth of Entertainment", translated by Franck Le Gac. Presses du réel, 2016.
Foreword
Le film musical : une fantasmagorie aux accents folk
Laurent Guido
Réflexivité et mythologie du divertissement dans la comédie musicale
Jane Feuer
Postface
Au prisme de Broadway : une réflexivité ironique ?
Marguerite Chabrol
Bibliographie
December 7-9, 2017
This conference aims at assessing the work undertaken during the three years of the MC² program. We will put emphasis on the presentation of the digital tool that was developed by MC², focusing on the conception and the possible uses of the database on the Hollywood film musical.
27-29 June 2017
Workshop for the research team focused on the use of our database
Some Thursdays at 5pm
This seminar will consider the film musical as a potential source of tension and negociation between retro and avant-garde spectacular forms, models and traditions. Film musicals inherited this artistic and cultural opposition from their Broadway sources, but re-inscribed it in the history of film technologies.
Decembre 1-3 2016
The adaptation of Broadway shows had technical, as well as ideological implications, since classical Hollywood films were censored according to the studios’ Production Code.
June 9-11, 2016
Many thanks to Anne Crémieux, Claire Demoulin, Jean-Baptiste Hennion, Aurélie Ledoux, Delphine Rives and Pierre-Olivier Toulza for their assistance in planning this event.
December 3-5 2015
This second international workshop will question what the genre expects from its stars – song and dance skills. It will focus on an analysis of these stars’ artistic performances and career paths, linked to the exchanges between industries and media on the one hand, and the promotion and reception of films on the other.