Dangerous rhythm : why movie musicals matter

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrios, Richard, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical films--United States--History and criticism.

Musical films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Insightful, exuberant, and witty, 'Dangerous Rhythm' offers a fresh, sometimes revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. Combining chronicle with critique and analysis, historian Richard Barrios lays out the whole of the musical's glorious and rocky existence, from Al Jolson to 'Les Misérables'.

Contents:

All that jazz

Everything's been done before

Where do they come from (and where do they go?)

Seeing's believing

People from Jolson to Justin in 85 years

The art of the possible

Music makes me

With plenty of money

I get the neck of the chicken

Turn on the heat

Painting the clouds: Snow White, South Park, and other ways to animate a musical

Under my skin: musicals musicals and race, musicals and sexuality

Put 'em in a box

Epilogue : Dream dancing.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 23, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-997386-5