Postmodernist Musical Film: The Blues Brothers (1980), Evita (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Sweeney Todd (2007) and La La Land (2016)
Postmodernist Musical Film: The Blues Brothers (1980), Evita (1996), Moulin Rouge (2001), Sweeney Todd (2007) and La La Land (2016)

Summary/Abstract: Postmodernism started to appear as a broad movement in the literary world after the 1980s. It has been applied to various fields, as well as cinema studies. The rise of postmodernist cinema brought many examples of cinematic productions to the contemporary literature. However, the idea to apply postmodernist film theories to musical film genre is not thoroughly pursued. Musical film genre, like many other literary and cinematic genres went through changes and reforms throughout time. This type of path breaking genre alterations lead to different genre aspects in many musical film productions in contrast to the traditional Hollywood musical film genre. The present study deals with the different generic conventions in five musical films- ‘The Blues Brothers (1980)’, ‘Evita (1996)’, ‘Moulin Rouge (2001)’ ‘Sweeney Todd (2007)’ and ‘La La Land (2016)’ - by applying postmodernist film theories to the generic conventions of selected musical films.

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