Table of Contents

List of Plates ix
Acknowledgments xiii


Introduction 1


1 Historical Overview 7


2 Critical Overview 38


3 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) 55


4 Top Hat (1935) 70


5 The Pirate (1948) 85


6 West Side Story (1961) and Saturday Night Fever (1977) 99


7 Woodstock (1970) 116


8 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) 131


9 Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Across the Universe (2007)
146


References 165


Index 171

About the Author

Barry Keith Grant is Professor of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including Auteurs and Authorship: a Film Reader (2008) Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (2007), Film Genre Reader (2003), and The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (1996). As well as being an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the series editor of the New Approaches to Film Genre series for Wiley-Blackwell.

Reviews

Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-divisionundergraduates; general readers. (Choice, 1November 2012)