John Trenz
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Hi Kelly, great post. I have
Hi Kelly, great post. I have no love for Tom Cruise- I think he's self-centered and a show off, such as in boasting about doing his own stunts. I think he's sort of a parody of the method actor. Even so, his celebrity is a fascinating case of ... -
I had a great time
Thanks, Kelli. I had a great time, and I thought the movie was a lot of fun. But contemporary musicals seem driven to prove their edge in artificial ways, especially by countering the traditional values of the musical with stereotypical sense of modern s ... -
Re: Gald to Discuss
Thanks, Saeed! I appreciate the example. I don't know the Huntington reference but I will look it up. For some reason, I think audiences are especially important to the dance movie, even more so than in the musical. I keep wanting to say that these f ... -
Re: Post 9/11
Hi, Michael. Thank you for commenting. I had not considered a post-911 analysis of the way tragedy is handled in Footloose '11. It seems like the post-911 significance transcends Footloose. Judith Butler wrote a wonderful essay, "Global Violence ... -
Experience of Music Video - technology, ideology, and aesthetics
Carol, I love this Katy Perry video. It exemplifies well the audiovisual turn/return of the music video as a vital form that bridges media industries, performers, technologies, creative-personnel in a swirl of transmedia significance- and as Tanine indiac ... -
Musical Melodrama
Hi, Nilanjana. I'm interested in your point about "song sequences" and their difference from Musicals usually associated with films in the American context, especially the associative contrast you make between musical melodrama and spectacl ... -
Yes!
However, I do enjoy the mimicking of the original from a stylistic/fashion standpoint. This to me is critical value of the original. And I am entertained by the dancing in remake. It is in fact more exhibition-like- but all of this is contextualized by Re ... -
Re: Race Gender and Class
Hi, Tanine. Thank you for your comment. I think "originality" is the problematic relationship that makes the question of Footloose's status as a Modern Musical a challenging matter. I don't adhere to notions that the original work is ... -
Tanine, I don’t think
Tanine, I don't think politics is in the film, either the original and the new version. But Footloose and Flashdance changed things- and their own history resulted in an opposition between critics and audiences. Audiences loved the films in spite of ... -
More insight
/*-->*/ Hey, Saeed! Thank you. Your comment got me thinking about my conceptualization audiences. I'm wondering if my reference to a teen audience for Footloose 2011 is not mythically over-determined by its marketing or is not situated enough ...