Body and soul : jazz and blues in American film, 1927-63

Peter Stanfield

This title features how the "dark continent" of blues and jazz provided Hollywood with a resonant resource to construct and negotiate the boundaries of American cultural identity. Writing in the late 1930s, New York journalist Joseph Mitchell observed: "Except for the minstrel show, the strip act is probably America's only original contribution to the theater". In "Body and Soul", Peter Stanfield's arguments echo Mitchell's observation. Stanfield begins by exploring how Hollywood used blackface minstrelsy to represent an emerging urban American theatrical history, and ends with a look at how American film at the close of the studio era represented urban decay through the figure of the burlesque dancer and stripper. In between, Stanfield considers the representation of American urban life in jazz, blues, ballads, and sin-songs and the manner in which the film studios exploited this "gutter" music. Alongside extensive, thought-provoking, and lively analysis of some of the most popular jazz and blues songs of the twentieth century - "Frankie and Johnny," "St. Louis Blues," "The Man I Love," "Blues in the Night," and "Body and Soul" - the book contains new work on blackface minstrelsy in early sound movies, racial representation and censorship, torch singers and torch songs, burlesque and strippers, the noir cityscape, the Hollywood Left, and hot jazz. Peter Stanfield is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of "The Lost Trail: Hollywood and 1930s Westerns", and "Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy".

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書名 Body and soul : jazz and blues in American film, 1927-63
著作者等 Stanfield, Peter
出版元 University of Illinois Press
刊行年月 c2005
ページ数 x, 213 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0252072359
0252029941
NCID BA72896399
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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