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[Commlist] new book: The Great Pretenders. Genre, Form, and Style in the Film Musicals of John Carney

Wed Oct 18 20:56:19 GMT 2023




New book: /The Great Pretenders. Genre, Form, and Style in the Film Musicals of John Carney/ by Carlos Menéndez-Otero. Published Sept 2023 by Peter Lang as part of the Reimagining Ireland book series.
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This book focuses on /Once/ (2006), /Begin Again/ (2013), and /Sing Street/ (2016), to date the most successful feature films by John Carney. Drawing on narrative, formalist, and genre theories of film, it examines how the formal and stylistic choices by the Irish filmmaker allow each to narrate a coherent story, hide its contrivances behind a facade of realism, and engage with universal, national, and personal concerns, with each other, and with other films and (sub)genres. It also explores the textual articulation of genre in each and the discrepancies between such articulation, the genre expectations set up by the promotional discourse coming from the publicity materials and events accompanying each release, and the genre labelling of each film in contemporary reviews.
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Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. /Once/ (2006): The Musical That Pretended It Was Not a Musical
Chapter 3. /Begin Again/ (2013): The Remake That Pretended It Was Not a Remake Chapter 4 /Sing Street/ (2016): The Coming-of-Ager That Pretended It Was Just a Musical
Chapter 5. Conclusion
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Website: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1314635
Paperback: ISBN 978-1-80374-135-2
E-book: ISBN 978-1-80374-136-9
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