Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film

by Amy Herzog

Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt from within more linear narrative frameworks. The representational strategies found in these films are often formulaic, repeating familiar story lines and stereotypical depictions of race, gender, and class. Yet she finds the musical moment contains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816660883
• ISBN13: 9780816660889
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"