A01=Garrett Stewart
Author_Garrett Stewart
Barbara Streisand
Broadway
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film
Funny Girl
jewish
jewish studies
musicals
plays
queer
television
Product details
- ISBN 9780814349083
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Wayne State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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At every stage of her career, Barbra Streisand's genius finds its fullest measure in screen song, first in Emmy-winning TV specials, then in Hollywood blockbusters from Funny Girl to Funny Lady. She goes on, as emerging auteur, to direct her own "musical concepts" in A Star Is Born—before reconceiving the big-screen musical altogether in the writing as well as directing of her own starring role in Yentl ("A Film with Music"). In this intensive reading of the "actress-who-sings," Garrett Stewart notes the gender and ethnic stereotypes that Streisand shattered as the first openly Jewish superstar, while concentrating not just on the cultural difference she made but on the internal differentials of her unholy vocal gift—whose kinetic volatility shapes a kind of cinematic terrain all its own. Down through her filmed return to the concert stage, Stewart elicits the sinuous phonetic text of Streisand's on-screen musical delivery in a keenly attentive mode of audition that puts into fresh perspective the indelible aura of her stardom.
