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Top Hat : Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television - Peter William Evans

Top Hat

By: Peter William Evans

Paperback | 10 September 2010 | Edition Number 1

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<i>Top Hat</i> is the first volume to spotlight this&#160;classic Hollywood film,&#160;probing the musical genre, notions of romance and subjectivity, as well as the contested relations between the sexes. <ul> <li>Offers a detailed analysis of one of Hollywood's greatest musicals, including a comprehensive survey of the film's production, promotion and reception,&#160;all measured against the background of 1930s socio-political contexts in the USA <li>Explores the musical genre and questions of (gendered) national identity, romance, subjectivity and the notion of the couple <li>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 </ul>
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"Its considerable claims to Art and its resonant magic are the dual focus of this insightful and highly readable study by Peter William Evans . . . Evans approaches this most celebratory of musical comedies in celebratory mode but also with a deserved seriousness devoid of solemnity." (Times Literary Supplement , 24 June 2011)

 

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