To Utopianize the Mundane: Sound and Image in Country Musicals

Many consider music, songs, and dance performance as utopian signifiers for cinema, but few has entered the utopian discourse of country musicals, a small genre of cinema usually known as country music films. By closely scrutinizing Pure Country (1992), this thesis aims to reveal how country music—a...

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Main Author: Ma, Siyuan
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6112
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7308&context=etd