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A song in the dark : the birth of the musical film / Richard Barrios.
LIBRA PN1995.9.M86 B37 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrios, Richard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical films--United States--History and criticism.
- Musical films.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 496 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- Drawing on meticulous research, sharp wit, and Insightful analysis, Richard Barrios illuminates the origins of the movie musical in this extensively revised and updated edition of his highly acclaimed a song in the dark. From Warner Bros. and Jolson to the Oscar-winning Broadway Melody and beyond, here is the whole funny and peculiar History of these films, their creators, and their audiences. Ranging from the smash hits of The singing Fool and sunny side up to bizarre flop like Golden Dawn and Cecil B. DeMille's Madam satan they from a body of work unlike anything else in the history of popular entertainment. Here too are legendary performers directors, and composers from Fannie Brice, James Cagney, and Mae West, to Busby Berkeley George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein, and countless others. With many new rare photographs, some not published in nearly 80 years, this new edition traces the rise and fall, and rise again. Of this quintessential piece of the American experience.
- Contents:
- 1 Vitaphone Prelude 15
- 2 The Sound Barrier 43
- 3 "You Were Meant for Me" 59
- 4 On with the Show!p75
- 5 Finding a Voice 101
- 6 Dueling Mammies 139
- 7 Hollywood, Revued 157
- 8 Broadway Babies 183
- 9 "With All Its Original Stage Enchantment" 215
- 10 Just Imagine 237
- 11 The Cuckoos 253
- 12 Of Viennese Nights and Golden Dawns 269
- 13 Is It a Musical? 299
- 14 The March of Time 313
- 15 Voices in the Wilderness 331
- 16 "We're in the Money" 359
- 17 The Past as Prologue 395.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes discography.
- ISBN:
- 9780195377354
- 0195377354
- 9780195377347
- 0195377346
- OCLC:
- 291908070
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