Unstaged Grief
Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America
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2025
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University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04633-9 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04633-9 (ISBN)
Often dismissed as escapism, screen musicals of the 1960s in fact tapped into unspoken sadness about an America that was slipping away. Jake Johnson delves into film and television musicals of the era to examine their place in networks of grieving in America, for America, and about America.
The Golden Age of musical theater ended just as Elisabeth KÜbler-Ross’s On Death and Dying debuted, and Johnson uses KÜbler-Ross’s five stages to frame the intertwining of musicals and grief. He analyzes films like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and State Fair alongside paintings, poetry, and other images and texts to reveal how the musical theater engine built in the first half of the century broke down just as a new language emerged to describe the melancholy felt by people facing the end of the world they had known.
Nuanced and original, Unstaged Grief plumbs the grief, loss, and hope behind the Technicolor spectacle and rousing showstoppers.
The Golden Age of musical theater ended just as Elisabeth KÜbler-Ross’s On Death and Dying debuted, and Johnson uses KÜbler-Ross’s five stages to frame the intertwining of musicals and grief. He analyzes films like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and State Fair alongside paintings, poetry, and other images and texts to reveal how the musical theater engine built in the first half of the century broke down just as a new language emerged to describe the melancholy felt by people facing the end of the world they had known.
Nuanced and original, Unstaged Grief plumbs the grief, loss, and hope behind the Technicolor spectacle and rousing showstoppers.
Jake Johnson is an assistant professor of musicology at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Lying in the Middle: Musical Theater and Belief at the Heart of America and editor of The Possibility Machine: Music and Myth in Las Vegas.
How to Process This Book
Introduction--Grief Hides
First Stage: Denial and Isolation
Chapter 1--Frozen Figures
Second Stage: Anger
Chapter 2--Sobbin’ Men
Third Stage: Bargaining
Chapter 3--Dead God
Fourth Stage: Depression
Chapter 4--Good Grief
Fifth Stage: Acceptance
Chapter 5--Deus ex machina
Codetta--Hope Shows
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2025 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Music in American Life |
| Zusatzinfo | 46 black & white photographs, 16 music examples |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-252-04633-1 / 0252046331 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-04633-9 / 9780252046339 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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