Top Hat
Book Details
Author(s)
Peter William Evans
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN
1405188294
ISBN-13
9781405188296
Availability
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Sales Rank
#6,076,543
Category
Performing Arts
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
Top Hat is the first volume to spotlight this classic Hollywood film, probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes.
- Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a comprehensive survey of the film's production, promotion and reception, all measured against the background of 1930s socio-political contexts in the USA
- Explores the musical genre and questions of (gendered) national identity, romance, subjectivity and the notion of the couple
- Written in a clear, accessible style, Top Hat probes text and context carefully to appeal to the student and teacher of the musical and of Hollywood film history, as well as the film-loving general reader
