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Free and easy? : a defining history of the American film musical genre
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Title
Free and easy? : a defining history of the American film musical genre / Sean Griffin.
ISBN
9781405194969
1405194960
9781405194952
1405194952
Publication
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
Physical Description
vii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Other formats
Online version: Griffin, Sean author. Defining history of the American film musical genre Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
Overture: musical traditions before cinema
You ain't heard nothin' yet: the sound revolution
Face the music and dance: the depression
Singing a song of freedom: World War II
There's beauty everywhere: MGM and the freed unit
Something's gotta give: the postwar musical
Bustin' out all over: the rise of the musical blockbuster
In a minor key: the B musical and beyond
The sound of money: musicals in the 1960s
Whistling in the dark: a genre in crisis
Can't stop the music: musicals and the new Hollywood
Just like Scheherezade: reviving the musical film genre.
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