The movie musical! /
Basinger, Jeanine,
The movie musical! / Jeanine Basinger. - First edition. - xiii, 634 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-604) and index.
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.
"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.
9781101874066 1101874066
2018046325
Musical films--History and criticism.--United States
PN1995.9. M86 / B375 2019
The movie musical! / Jeanine Basinger. - First edition. - xiii, 634 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-604) and index.
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.
"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.
9781101874066 1101874066
2018046325
Musical films--History and criticism.--United States
PN1995.9. M86 / B375 2019