Star Turns in Hollywood
Musicals

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• Introduction
  Marguerite Chabrol & Pierre-Olivier Toulza

  [First pages]
• Operation
  Technological bodies
  • Fred Astaire, Captain America, and the Cyborg: The Technological Body of a Musical Star 
    Todd Decker
  • “Experimentations by Our Sound Department”: Playback Stars in 1930s Hollywood
    Allison Robbins
  • The Goddess in Mono: The Dubbing of Rita Hayworth
    Marguerite Chabrol
• Operation
  Minority Performers
  • Featuring the Nicholas Brothers: Spectacle, Structure and Race in the Hollywood Musical
    Karen McNally
  • Adorning and Whitening: Carmen Miranda’s Technicolor
    Pierre-Olivier Toulza
  • Imitation, Embodiment, and Homage in Eleanor Powell’s Tribute to Bill Robinson
    Robynn J. Stilwell
• Operation
  Musical Comedians
  • The Musical Comedian: Bob Hope in the Road to Series and Son of Paleface
    Steven Cohan
  • Eddie Cantor, Singing Comedian: Celebrity and Character Across Media
    Noah Teichner
  • Fanny Brice/Barbra Streisand: "The Original Funny Girl"
    Jacqueline Nacache
• Operation
  “Star-making” and Media Stereotypes
  • Cyd Charisse: America’s Movie Ballerina
    Adrienne L. McLean
  • Doris Day’s Early Warner Bros. Musicals: The Transition of a Star from the Recording Industry
    Fanny Beuré 
  • Bodies on Display: Musical Stars and Advertising Photography
    Laurent Guido