Research Catalog

Title

Vincente Minnelli : the art of entertainment / edited by Joe McElhaney.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

McElhaney, Joe, 1957-

Description

ix, 458 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Subject

• Minnelli, Vincente > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-432) and index.

Contents

Introduction : playing for blood / Joe McElhaney -- Minelli in the 1960s : the rise and fall of an auteur. The red and the green : The four horsemen of the apocalypse / Jean Douchet -- Two weeks in another town / Jean Douchet -- Specters at the feast : French viewpoints on Minnelli's comedies / Bill Krohn -- Minnelli's American nightmare / Jean-Loup Bourget -- Vincente Minnelli / Thomas Elsaesser -- The 1970s and 1980s : genre, psychoanalysis, and close readings. Minnelli and melodrama / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Meet me in St. Louis : Smith; or, The ambiguities / Andrew Britton -- It could be Oedipus Rex : denial and difference in The band wagon; or, The American musical as American gothic / Dana Polan -- Minnelli's Madame Bovary / Robin Wood -- The pirate isn't just decor / Serge Daney -- Minnelli caught in his web / Serge Daney -- The 1990s : matters of history, culture, and sexuality. The band wagon / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- The adventures of Rafe Hunnicutt : the bourgeois family in Home from the hill / Edward Gallafent -- Uptown folk : blackness and entertainment in Cabin in the sky / James Naremore -- Vincente Minnelli and the film ballet / Beth Genné -- Queer modernism : the cinematic aesthetic of Vincente Minnelli / David A. Gerstner -- The production and display of the closet : making Minnelli's Tea and sympathy / David A. Gerstner -- Minnelli today : the return of the artist. Brushstrokes in CinemaScope : Minnelli's action painting in Lust for life / Scott Bukatman -- Medium-shot gestures : Vincente Minnelli and Some came running / Joe McElhaney -- Minnelli in double system / Emmanuel Burdeau -- Style, calculation, and counterpoint in The clock / Murray Pomerance -- The immobile journey of Helen Corbett : on The courtship of Eddie's father / Carlos Losilla -- The impossible musical : On a clear day you can see forever / Adrian Martin -- Ars gratia artis : notes on Minnelli's poetics / Jacques Rancière -- Panic / Raymond Bellour -- Minnelli's messages / Emmanuel Burdeau.

Call Number

MWES (Minnelli, V.) 09-3848

ISBN

• 9780814333075 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0814333079 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008026320

OCLC

232002215

Title

Vincente Minnelli : the art of entertainment / edited by Joe McElhaney.

Imprint

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2009.

Series

Contemporary approaches to film and television series

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-432) and index.

Added Author

McElhaney, Joe, 1957-

Research Call Number

MWES (Minnelli, V.) 09-3848