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1	Musicals and the Margins: African-Americans, Women, and Queerness in the 21st Century American Musical Wellborn, Brecken 12 1900 (has links) This thesis provides an overview of the various ways in which select marginalized identities are represented within the twenty-first century American musical film. The first intention of this thesis is to identify, define, and organize the different subgenres that appear within the twenty-first century iterations of the musical film. The second, and principal, intention of this thesis is to explore contemporary representations of African-Americans, women, and queerness throughout the defined subgenres. Within this thesis, key films are analyzed from within each subgenre to understand these textual representations. Cinema Film Musical Musical Film Cultural Studies African-American Representation Representation of Women Queer Representation Genre Studies Twenty-First Century Acoustic-Realist Musical Animated Fairytales Camp Musi-Comedy Family-Oriented Musical Formalist-Prestige Musical Music Video-Epic Neo-Nostalgic Spectacle Pop Performer Biopic Soundtrack-Dance Musical Tween-TV Musical African Americans in motion pictures. Women in motion pictures. Sexual minorities in motion pictures.