Introduction: Reimagining the Contemporary Musical in the Twenty First CenturyK. J. Donnelly and Beth Carroll; Part One: Original Musicals; Aesthetic Absurdities in Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris, Craig Hatch; Film and the Twilight of Rock (Rock is Dead and Film killed It) Nails in Rock's Coffin: Post-Millennial Rock Musicals, K. J. Donnelly; Team America: World Police: Duplicitous Voices of the Socio-Political Spy Musical, Jack Curtis Dubowsky; The Anti-Musical or Generic Affinity: Is there anything left to say?, Beth Carroll; 'Is this real enough for you?': Lyrical articulation of The Beatles' songs in Across the Universe, Stephanie Fremaux; 'Love Is an Open Door': Revising and Repeating Disney's Musical Tropes in Frozen, Ryan Bunch; Part Two: Stage to Screen; Star quality? Song, celebrity, and the jukebox musical in Mamma Mia!, Catherine Haworth; Beyond the Barricade: Adapting Les Misérables for the Cinema, Ian Sapiro; Part Three: Musicals By Another Name; O' Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coen Brothers and the musical genre contamination, Stefano Baschiera; Racing in the Beat: Music in the Fast & Furious Franchise, Todd Decker; Kill Bill to the Beat: Exploring Quentin Tarantino as a musical filmmaker, Geena Brown.