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Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Wizard of Oz, Gigi, Top Hat, High Society - some of the most popular movie musicals ever made were written by Broadway songwriters. The Sound of Music, Chic
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
When films like The Jazz Singer started to integrate synchronized music, in the late 1920s many ambitious songwriting pioneers of the Great White Way - George a
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Scarecrow Press
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 reada
Language: en
Pages: 176
Pages: 176
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Indiana University Press
... both fresh and informed, as well as a pleasure to read. --Film Quarterly Since 1982, when this book first appeared, the Hollywood musical has undergone a re
Language: en
Pages: 352
Pages: 352
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-07 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press
From the late 1920s to late 1950s, the Broadway theatre was America's cultural epicenter. Television didn't exist and movies were novelties. Entertainment took