THE HOLLYWOOD FILM MUSICAL -- CONTENTS -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Historical Overview -- 2 Critical Overview -- 3 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) -- 4 Top Hat (1935) -- 5 The Pirate (1948) -- 6 West Side Story (1961) and Saturday Night Fever (1977) -- 7 Woodstock (1970) -- 8 Phantom of the Paradise (1974) -- 9 Pennies from Heaven (1981) and Across the Universe (2007) -- References -- Index