When the Music Takes Over. Musical Numbers in Film and Television

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Musical numbers in silent cinema

• Singing in silent cinema

• Dancing in silent cinema

• Performing gender in musical numbers

• Performing bodies

• (De)constructing star images with music numbers

• Inter- and transmedial aspects of performances in film

• Musical numbers in European cinema

• Non-western traditions (Bollywood, Brazilian musicals etc.)

• Ideological aspects: the utopian potential of musical numbers

• Negotiating different semantic systems: filmic representation of musical form (in musical moments)

• Repetition and difference: musical numbers between affirmation and subversion

• Methodological and theoretical questions (musicological, philosophical, psychological approaches etc.)

• Reception of musical numbers

• Musical numbers and fan culture