TY - BOOK AU - Basinger,Jeanine TI - The movie musical! SN - 9781101874066 AV - PN1995.9. M86 B375 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - Musical films KW - United States KW - History and criticism N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -