Salve Regina University Digital Commons @ Salve Regina Pell Scholars and Senior Theses Salve's Dissertations and Theses Summer 8-2012 Chicago: A Movie Musical Mockery of the Media's Razzle Dazzle Image of Murder. Emily Sulock Salve Regina University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/pell_theses Part of the American Film Studies Commons, American Popular Culture Commons, and the Film and Media Studies Commons Sulock, Emily, "Chicago: A Movie Musical Mockery of the Media's Razzle Dazzle Image of Murder." (2012). Pell Scholars and Senior Theses. 83. https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/pell_theses/83 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Salve's Dissertations and Theses at Digital Commons @ Salve Regina. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pell Scholars and Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Salve Regina. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Chicago : A Movie Musical Mockery of the Media’s Razzle Dazzle Image of Murder Emily Sulock Sulock 2 Introduction Almost a decade has passed since Rob Marshall’s 2002 movie musical, Chicago , took home the Academy Award for Best Picture. For a movie musical this was a huge success considering that a musical had not won this category since 1969. The film dominated the 2003 Academy Awards as it was nominated for twelve categories, overall winning six. No one had expected the film to do so well since it was three decades in the making after Bob Fosse’s original release of the Broadway musical in 1976.