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Through the screen door : what happened to the Broadway musical when it went to Hollywood / Thomas S. Hischak.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML1711 .H42 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hischak, Thomas S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--United States--History and criticism.
- Musicals.
- United States.
- Musical films--United States--History and criticism.
- Musical films.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 311 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- This book is about the transition that musicals went through when they traveled from the stage to the screen. While the approach is critical, the style is readable and yields fascinating knowledge on the many things that did and didn't happen as theatre and film have merged throughout the past century.Hischak'sanalysis covers productions from The Desert Song (1927), to Chicago (2002).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810850184
- OCLC:
- 56043995
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