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The movie musical! / Jeanine Basinger.

By: Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 634 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781101874066
  • 1101874066
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Movie musical!LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9. M86 B375 2019
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.
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.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PN1995.9. M86 B375 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001495117

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.

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