Hannah Lewis on "La La Land" Book Project

About This Event

Hannah Lewis will lead a three-hour seminar for students and faculty at Syracuse University. For the workshop, she will discuss her chapter titled, La La Land (2016): The Golden Age Music Through a Contemporary Lens, centering on how modern-day Hollywood musicals highlight elements found in classical productions, thereby creating a sense of nostalgia for the older style. Her presentation interrogates the aesthetic and cultural implications of the contemporary film musical’s audiovisual style, which began in 2001 with the release of Moulin Rouge! and crystallized in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The event will align with the class offering HOM 400, The Film Musical, taught by Professor Cary Peñate in the fall at SU.

Featured Guests

• Hannah Lewis, University of Texas at Austin

Co-sponsors

• Syracuse University Department of Art and Music Histories
• Syracuse University Department of English
• Goldring Arts Journalism and Communications Program at Newhouse