Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis

<p>This project explores the trend of bodily and identity modification in the contemporary Hollywood musical and calls for a re-reading of the genre away from the standard classification, that of one strictly imbued with wistful nostalgia and heteronormativity. This work argues that several films have abrogated these traditional ideals to create a carnivalesque representation of the societal norms through a genre, and a production code that sought to preserve them. Using the work of Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin, this project reveals that these films feature dark and satirical para-realities of murder, debauchery and cannibalism that act as a catharsis to their audiences' most salient fantasies and desires.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Gullen, Christopher Timothy

Contributors dc:contributor

• jackie Byars

• Corporeal
• Hollywood
• Horror
• Modification
• Musical
• Semiotics
• Film and Media Studies
• Music
• Theatre and Performance Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_dissertations/595

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.wayne.edu:oa_dissertations-1594