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Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros. : Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical

by Dr. James Phillips

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media
ISBN-10 876512481Y
ISBN-13 9798765124819
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 20th, 2025
Print length 256 Pages
Weight 510 grams
Dimensions 15.90 x 23.60 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification: Individual film directors, film-makers Musicals Philosophy: aesthetics Political ideologies
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Busby Berkeley’s big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory.

Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in which Berkeley created spectacles that are both critical and complacent in relation to the society that produced and received them.

Berkeley carried into his images of utopia the assembly plant, the misogyny, the fascism and racism of his day, but his collaboration with the filmmakers (Enright, Bacon and LeRoy) into whose narratives his numbers were spliced likewise involved taking care to draw a line between spectacle and the everyday. The book makes the case that the Warner Bros. musical, with its attention to the specificity and containment of the aesthetic dimension, has corrective lessons to impart for the aestheticized politics not only of the 1930s, but also of the current age.

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