"First published in hardback by Edinburgh University Press 2012"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Corey K. Creekmur and Linda Y. Mokdad -- Part I. Europe. Britain / John Mundy -- France / Kelley Conway -- Germany / Antje Ascheid -- Portugal / Lisa Shaw -- Spain / Inmaculada Sánchez Alarcón -- Italy / Alex Marlow-Mann -- Greece / Lydia Papadimitriou -- Soviet Union / Richard Taylor -- Part II. Latin America. Mexico / Ana M. López -- Brazil / João Luis Vieira -- Part III. Asia. Japan / Aaron Gerow -- China / Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh -- India / Michael Lawrence -- Part IV. The Middle East. Egypt / Linda Y. Mokdad -- Turkey / Nezih Erdoǧan -- Part V. Hollywood and the world. The post-modern transnational film musical / Björn Norðfjörð -- Coda : the musical as international genre : reading notes / Rick Altman
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This is a comparative consideration of the musical's role within national cinema traditions. While the musical is one of cinema's few genuinely international genres, it has often functioned as an explicitly local or national form, drawing upon distinct traditions understood as native rather than international