TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carlos Menéndez Otero
PY  - 2023
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9781803741369
TI  - The Great Pretenders
T2  - Genre, Form, and Style in the Film Musicals of John Carney
DO  - 10.3726/b20644
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1314635
N2  - This book focuses on the most successful feature films of John Carney, namely Once (2006), Begin Again (2013) and Sing Street (2016). Drawing on narrative, formalist and genre theories of film, the book presents an in-depth examination of how the formal and stylistic choices made by Carney allow each film to narrate a story in a coherent way. It shows how aural and visual contrivances are hidden behind a façade of realism, and how the films engage with universal, national and personal concerns and also how they relate to each other and to Irish and American film in general. It also explores the textual articulation of genre in each and the discrepancies between such articulation, the genre expectations set up by the promotional discourse coming from the publicity materials and events accompanying each release, and the genre labelling of each film in contemporary reviews by professional critics from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland.
KW  - Genre, Form, and Style in the Film Musicals of John Carney, Carlos Menéndez-Otero, John Carney, film musicals, Irish cinema, The Great Pretenders
LA  - English
ER  -