COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: MUSIC, FILM, CULTURE -- 2 JAZZ, IDEOLOGY AND THE ANIMATED CARTOON -- 3 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE BIG BAND MUSICAL -- 4 TELEVISION, THE POP INDUSTRY AND THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL -- 5 THE OPERATIC IN NEW GERMAN CINEMA -- PART TWO: STARS, PERFORMANCE AND RECEPTION -- 6 JACK BUCHANAN AND BRITISH MUSICAL COMEDY OF THE 1930s -- 7 STAR PERSONAE AND AUTHENTICITY IN THE COUNTRY MUSIC BIOPIC -- 8 STARDOM, RECEPTION AND THE ABBA 'MUSICAL' -- PART THREE: THE POST-CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD MOVIE -- 9 MUSICAL PERFORMANCE AND THE CULT FILM EXPERIENCE -- 10 THE SOUNDTRACK MOVIE, NOSTALGIA AND CONSUMPTION -- 11 YOUTH, EXCESS AND THE MUSICAL MOMENT -- 12 MUSIC, FILM AND POST-STONEWALL GAY IDENTITY -- PART FOUR: BEYOND HOLLYWOOD -- 13 EARLY DANISH MUSICAL COMEDIES, 1931-9 -- 14 FILM MUSICALS IN THE GDR -- 15 MUSIC IN THE BOLLYWOOD FILM -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.