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Author:   Barry Keith Grant (Brock University, Canada)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.396kg
ISBN:  

9781405182539

ISBN 10:   1405182539
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   30 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Plates ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Historical Overview 7 2 Critical Overview 38 3 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 55 4 Top Hat (1935) 70 5 The Pirate (1948) 85 6 West Side Story (1961) and Saturday Night Fever (1977) 99 7 Woodstock (1970) 116 8 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 131 9 Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Across the Universe (2007) 146 References 165 Index 171

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?Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers.? (Choice, 1 November 2012)

Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. ( Choice , 1 November 2012)

<p> Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-divisionundergraduates; general readers. (Choice, 1November 2012)

<p> Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. (Choice, 1 November 2012)

Author Information

Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including Auteurs and Authorship: a Film Reader (2008) Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Film Genre Reader (2003), and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996). As well as being an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the series editor of the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley-Blackwell.

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