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Brief: You should refer in your essay to a range of films but you should pay particularly close attention to TWO course films and discuss them in more detail, including analysis of at least one sequence. The primary film discussed can be chosen from either the weekly screenings or the contextual screenings listed on Talis.
1. Kelly Kessler argues that, if the classical Hollywood musical ‘uses dance to express uncontainable joy and emotion and illustrate romantic possibility, the later choreography of Bob Fosse further reinforces a lack of emotion and social estrangement’ (Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical, 2010:123).
• Drawing on Kessler, compare a Bob Fosse musical with a studio-era antecedent.
2. Jane Feuer suggests that ‘the teen musicals of the 1980s represent a ‘‘reconstruction’’ in that they are not parodic or deconstructive of the conventions of the classical musical. Rather, they introduce new conventions’ (1993: 130).
• Drawing on Feuer, discuss how and why TWO teen dance films (1980s or hip-hop) engage with AND modify the classical musical’s conventions.
3. Richard Dyer argues that ‘Dancing is by definition about bodies in spaces, about how bodies relate to other bodies, how they move through space, how they make use of or submit to the environments around them. Less obviously, singing too is about space; singing carries into space in a different way from speech and different kinds of singing, from crooning to belting, impose themselves different on the world around’. (‘The Colour of Entertainment’ in Only Entertainment (2002:41))
• Drawing on Dyer, analyse TWO musicals engagement with space and place.
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