This can be the 1st comparative attention of the musical's function inside of nationwide cinema traditions. whereas the musical is one cinema's few surely foreign genres, it has usually functioned as an explicitly neighborhood or nationwide shape, drawing upon exact traditions understood as 'native' instead of 'international'. at the same time, musicals from worldwide have usually imitated Hollywood versions, leading to their effortless dismissal as culturally 'impure' and demonstrating the artistic and ideological stress among selling and forsaking conventional cultural varieties and kinds. This efficient rigidity among neighborhood and worldwide parts lies on the center of overseas movie musicals, which generally recognize the dominant Hollywood version whereas claiming their very own cultural specificity.
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