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1 online resource (379 pages) |
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Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Overture: Musical Traditions before Cinema; Music and Dance in Early America; The Development of American Theatre; The Rise of "American" Music; American Musical Theatre; Notes; Chapter 2 You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet: The Sound Revolution; Sounding Out the Competition: Technological and Industrial Influence on Filming Musical Performance; On with the Show: Theatrical Influence on the Film Musical; Beyond the Blue Horizon: Early Film Musical Experiments |
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Other Voices: Minoritized Groups and the Emerging Film Musical GenreAm I Blue? US Volatility in the Late 1920s; Notes; Chapter 3 Face the Music and Dance: The Depression; Blah Blah Blah: The Slump; A New Deal in Entertainment: Berkeley to the Rescue; Sweet Mysteries of Life: The Production Code; Out of the Red and Over the Rainbow: Surviving the Depression; Swing High, Swing Low: Blending/Competing Musical Styles; Notes; Chapter 4 Singing a Song of Freedom: World War II; Off to See the World: Musicals Prepare for War; All Out for Freedom: Musicals Help Deal with the War |
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Who's a Yankee Doodle Dandy? American Diversity in the Wartime MusicalNotes; Chapter 5 There's Beauty Everywhere: MGM and the Freed Unit; Musicals under the Classical Hollywood Studio System; Freed in the Classical Hollywood Studio System; The Freed Unit Style; Notes; Chapter 6 Something's Gotta Give: The Postwar Musical; Jumping on the Band Wagon: The Ascendancy of Integration; "And then I wrote ... ": Enshrining the "American Songbook"; It's Always Fair Weather? Postwar Anxieties; Notes; Chapter 7 Bustin' Out All Over: The Rise of the Musical Blockbuster |
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Love Me or Leave Me: The Breakup of the Studio SystemIn My Own Little Corner: The Arrival of Television; To Get the Public to Attend a Picture Show: Competing with Television; High as an Elephant's Eye: The Epic Broadway Adaptation; Notes; Chapter 8 In a Minor Key: The B Musical and Beyond; Don't Fence Me In: B Musicals of the 1930s and 1940s; Don't Let Them Turn Our Love Song Turn Into a Blues: Marginalized Communities and Film Industries; Don't Knock the Rock: Exploitation Musicals in the 1950s; Notes; Chapter 9 The Sound of Money: Musicals in the 1960s; W(h)ither? Rock and Film, 1960-1965 |
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Hello, Folly! Blockbuster Musicals, 1965-1970Born to Be Wild: Rock and Film, 1965-1970; Notes; Chapter 10 Whistling in the Dark: A Genre in Crisis; The Conventional Integrated Musical in an Age of Not Believing; Phantoms of Paradise: Rock and the Backstager; Life as a Cabaret: Deconstructing the Musical; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 11 Can't Stop the Music: Musicals and the New Hollywood; Stayin' Alive: The Music Industry and the Film Musical in the Late 1970s; Cinematic Boogaloo: The Impact of Music Video; Notes; Chapter 12 Just Like Scheherezade: Reviving the Musical Film Genre |
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A Whole New World: The New Disney Animated Musical |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism
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Musical films
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118322840 |
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1118322843 |
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