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The Laramie Project (2025)
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Footloose: The Musical
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The Glass Menagerie
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Artifice, Audience, and Antifascism: The Backstage Film Musical as Avant-Garde
No full textThe film musical genre is widely considered to uphold both the conventions of classical narrative cinema and the musical structure theorized by Rick Altman, where the romantic couple originally at odds, along with their opposing thematic ideals, are unified in the final utopian resolution of a successful show. In connection with Bertolt Brecht’s arguments for a critical audience and Susan Sontag’s theories of camp, this essay will argue that the backstage musical subgenre works, rather, in experimental or avant-garde ways by drawing attention to the mesmerizing artifice of performance and film. I will consider how films such as Donen and Kelly’s Singin’ in the Rain and Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance announce this artifice through their incorporation of performance within the narrative, their direct camp or critical address of the film spectator, and their careful use of a diegetic audience. Expanding on work by Steven Belletto and Terri Gordon, I will then turn to Cabaret as I consider how Fosse furthers these backstage conventions to condemn his film spectator for our mesmerization by the fascist artifice and aesthetics both onstage at the Kit Kat Club and embedded within the film itself. I will look at how Fosse’s film denies catharsis, disrupts his spectator’s mesmerization through the crosscutting of decadent performance with Weimar violence, and invokes fascist aesthetics of collectivism reminiscent of the political films by Leni Riefenstahl. In a creative epilogue, I will examine Joel Grey’s personal essay on the show’s relevant warning as I theorize my own experience as both a performer and audience member in Cabaret
Footloose: The Musical
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Dames at Sea
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Implementation Guidelines for Total Hip and Total Knee Arthroplasty to Reduce the Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Subsequent Pulmonary Embolism
Full text linkWith patients living longer, the orthopedic sector has given rise to joint prostheses as a treatment for those experiencing osteoarthritis (OA). With the increase of these procedures, there is also an increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and subsequent pulmonary embolus (PE) following these surgical procedures. The orthopedic medical community and anesthesia providers aim to decrease DVT and PE risk through multiple modalities. The anesthesia focuses on reducing DVT, and PE involves a multimodal approach to each anesthetic. Modalities used for the multimodal approach involve peripheral nerve blocks (PNB), neuraxial spinal anesthesia, early mobilization, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) reduction, and tranexamic acid to prevent bleeding during these procedures. This study\u27s research has concluded that tranexamic acid does not increase the risk of DVT following total hip (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in appropriate populations. Muscle-sparing PNB or spinal anesthetics allow for earlier ambulation in THA and TKA patients. A multimodal approach to PONV allows patients to mobilize faster and allows a short post-anesthetic care unit (PACU) stay. Combined and coupled with educating the patient on the importance of early mobilization participation, it decreases the risk of DVT and PE following THA and TKA
Urinetown: The Musical
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Urinetown: The Musical
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Urinetown: The Musical
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