Contents

pp v-vi

Illustrations

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-x

Introduction: Reimagining the Contemporary Musical in the Twenty-first Century

pp 1-10

PART ONE - ORIGINAL MUSICALS

pp 11-12

1 - Aesthetic Absurdities in Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris

pp 13-24

2 - Film and the Twilight of Rock (Rock is Dead and Film Killed It): Post-millennial Rock Musicals

pp 25-39

3 - Team America: World Police: Duplicitous Voices of the Socio-political Spy Musical

pp 40-57

4 - The Anti-musical or Generic Affinity: Is there Anything Left to Say?

pp 58-71

5 - ‘Is This Real Enough For You?’: Lyrical Articulation of the Beatles' Songs in Across the Universe

pp 72-88

6 - ‘Love Is an Open Door’: Revising and Repeating Disney's Musical Tropes in Frozen

pp 89-104

PART TWO - STAGE TO SCREEN

pp 105-106

7 - Star Quality? Song, Celebrity and the Jukebox Musical in Mamma Mia!

pp 107-122

8 - Beyond the Barricade: Adapting Les Misérables for the Cinema

pp 123-140

PART THREE - MUSICALS BY ANOTHER NAME

pp 141-142

9 - O Brother, Where Art Thou?: The Coen Brothers and the Musical Genre Contamination

pp 143-156

10 - Racing in the Beat: Music in the Fast & Furious Franchise

pp 157-173

11 - Kill Bill: Quentin Tarantino as a Musical Filmmaker

pp 174-190

Index

pp 191-192