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Article: Still for sale: love songs and prostitutes from La Traviata to Moulin Rouge.(Critical Essay)

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June 1, 2005
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This essay challenges the prevailing notion of popular culture as debased by interrogating the fraught relationship with commodity culture Baz Luhrmann's 2001 Moulin Rouge shares with its reviewers.

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Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge, hailed by its supporters as the triumphant remake of the movie musical (Wilmington; Talen), has also drawn extensive criticism for a number of its musical choices, particularly its use of a pastiche of popular songs from the 1890s to the present. The litany of complaints regarding the songs includes charges that they are borrowed and consequently unoriginal (Rudolph); composite and as such fragmented and incomplete; ... 







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