博客來The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation’s hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Covering early 20th century works such as Alice’s Egg Plant (1914) and all the major musicals from the first full-length feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), to The Lion King - Broadway’s highest grossing production in history, and Frozen (2013), this edited collection offers a diverse range of theoretical engagements that will appeal to readers of film and media studies, musical theatre, cultural studies, and theatre and performance.
The volume is divided into four sections to provide a contextual analysis of Disney’s most famous musicals:
* Animated Musicals - music within the film genre;
* Interconnections - adaptation of work from one medium to another;
* Representations - masculinities, femininities and sexualities, and
* Beyond Broadway - Disney’s outreach, marketing and new markets.
The first section employs film theory, semiotics and film music analysis to explore the animated works and their links to the musical theatre genre. The second section addresses the self-reflexivity of the musical and the various versions for television, film and stage. It include theories of adaptation and discussion of cultural impact of the Disney product. The next section focuses on issues of representation and portrayals of hetero-normativity, homosexuality, masculinity and femininity in Newsies, Frozen, High School Musical and Mary Poppins. The final section considers outreach of the Disney product, cultural value and productions outside the Broadway theatrical arena. Among others, the volume offers a discussion of Enchanted, The Lion King, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin and The Jungle Book. The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen opens up new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, gender politics, feminist theory and the Disney franchise.
