Contemporary Musical Film

SUMARIO. Reimagining the Contemporary Musical in the Twenty First Century; K. J. Donnelly and Beth Carroll // Part One: Original Musicals / Aesthetic Absurdities in Takashi Miike’s The Happiness of the Katakuris ; Craig Hatch / Film and the Twilight of Rock (Rock is Dead and Film killed It) Nails in Rock’s Coffin: Post-Millennial Rock Musicals ; K. J. Donnelly / Team America: World Police: Duplicitous Voices of the Socio-Political Spy Musical ; Jack Curtis Dubowsky / The Anti-Musical or Generic Affinity: Is there anything left to say? ; Beth Carroll / ‘Is this real enough for you?’: Lyrical articulation of The Beatles’ songs in Across the Universe ; Stephanie Fremaux / ‘Love Is an Open Door’: Revising and Repeating Disney’s Musical Tropes in Frozen ; Ryan Bunch // Part Two: Stage to Screen / Star quality? Song, celebrity, and the jukebox musical in Mamma Mia! ; Catherine Haworth / Beyond the Barricade: Adapting Les Misérables for the Cinema ; Ian Sapiro // Part Three: Musicals By Another Name / O’ Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coen Brothers and the musical genre contamination ; Stefano Baschiera / Racing in the Beat: Music in the Fast & Furious Franchise ; Todd Decker / Kill Bill to the Beat: Exploring Quentin Tarantino as a musical filmmaker ; Geena Brown.