KELLY KESSLER is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communications at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Her work on gender, genre, and sexuality has appeared in publications such as Film Quarterly , Televising Queer Women , American Masculinities , and The New Queer Aesthetic on Television .
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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Musical and Masculinity Take a Turn for the Ambivalent | |
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| How did this all happen?-Theoretical, formal, and industrial roots | |
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| How the arcadias disappeared | |
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| Nothing Is Comin' Up Roses: The Desertion of Narrative Utopia | |
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| People won't say we're in love-The dissolution of romance | |
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| The state of community and a Utopian future | |
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| Case study: The narrative of Zoot Suit | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| On a Clear Day You Can See the Cracks in the Scenery: Visual Reflexivity and Realism Trump Nostalgic Idealism | |
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| Camerawork and editing: I can see right through you | |
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| Mise-en-sc�ne: It's the real deal right here in River City-Well maybe | |
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| Case study: Tommy's conjunction of ambivalent narrative and aesthetics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Wanna Sing and Dance? These New Guys Are Ambivalent About It | |
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| New stars: They laughed, cried, and tried to punch each other's lights out | |
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| Wanna sing: Ah, I'm ambivalent about it | |
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| Ambivalent dance: We didn't dance all night | |
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| Case study: Twyla Tharp, rock, no-name stars, and Hair | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The New Guard's Musical Masculinity | |
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| Performance of masculinity in the arcadian musical | |
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| Masculine ambivalence is nothing to sing about | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue: I Could Go On Singing | |
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| Dancing into the millennium | |
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| The groovin' eighties and nineties: Teens and tots | |
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| The millennial upturn | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
KELLY KESSLER is Assistant Professor of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Communications at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. Her work on gender, genre, and sexuality has appeared in publications such as Film Quarterly , Televising Queer Women , American Masculinities , and The New Queer Aesthetic on Television .
