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The movie musical! / Jeanine Basinger.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.M86 B38 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Basinger, Jeanine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musical films--United States--History and criticism.
- Musical films.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 634 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her trademark wit and zest, the whole story of the Hollywood musical in the most telling, most incisive, most detailed, most gorgeously illustrated book of her long and remarkable career"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- About musicals
- Origins: the arrival of sound
- 1933: a musical year
- Stars and strategies
- The musical as an art form
- The death of the musical?
- Epitaph
- Final number.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-604) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Basinger, Jeanine, author. Movie musical!
- ISBN:
- 9781101874066
- 1101874066
- OCLC:
- 1057238407
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