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

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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