Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem [1ed.]0230230490, 9780230230491

Description:A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!.