The Great Movie Musicals
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The Great Movie Musicals
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Author : Don Tyler
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-04-20
The Great Movie Musicals written by Don Tyler and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-20 with Performing Arts categories.
Beginning with The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending with Sweeney Todd in 2007, this comprehensive critical history examines the greatest movie musicals of all time. Organized alphabetically, 168 films are analyzed on the basis of importance, entertainment value and musical presentation. Included are Broadway adaptations (West Side Story), screen originals (The Wizard of Oz), all-star revues (The King of Jazz), musical biopics (The Glenn Miller Story), "dance pictures (Fame) and animated features (Aladdin). Each entry contains full cast and production credits, a list of awards, background information, and a synopsis incorporating the musical numbers in order of appearance. Appendices itemize the "greatest musical" selections of the American Film Institute and Entertainment Weekly magazine.
Must See Musicals
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Author : Richard Barrios
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-10-10
Must See Musicals written by Richard Barrios and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Performing Arts categories.
Spanning nine decades and showcasing the most memorable songs, dazzling dancing, and brightest stars ever to grace the silver screen, Must-See Musicals is the guide to the greatest musicals of all time from the most trusted authority on film: Turner Classic Movies. Movie musicals have been a part of pop culture since films began to talk, over nine decades ago. From The Jazz Singer in 1927 all the way to La La Land in modern times, musicals have sung and danced over a vast amount of territory, thrilling audiences the entire time. More than any other type of entertainment, musicals transport us to marvelous places: a Technicolor land over the rainbow in The Wizard of Oz; a romantic ballroom where, in Top Hat, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance cheek to cheek; a London theater where the Beatles perform before hysterical crowds in A Hard Day's Night; even to a seemingly alternate reality where eager throngs still throw rice as they watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show. These titles, and many more, show us that a great musical film is a timeless joy. Covering fifty of the best spanning the dawn of sound to the high-def present, Turner Classic Movies: Must-See Musicals -- written by renowned musical historian Richard Barrios-is filled with lush illustrations as well as enlightening commentary and entertaining "backstage" stories about every one of these unforgettable films.
Great Movie Musicals On Dvd
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Author : John Howard Reid
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-07-01
Great Movie Musicals On Dvd written by John Howard Reid and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Over 60 great film musicals from Hollywood's major studios are given detailed treatment, while hundreds more are briefly noted in this comprehensive guide to the best of America's vintage movie musical classics that are now available on DVD.
Listen To Movie Musicals
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Author : James E. Perone
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-01-13
Listen To Movie Musicals written by James E. Perone and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-13 with Music categories.
Listen to Movie Musicals! provides an overview of musical theater on film for fans of the genre, with a focus on 50 must-hear musicals featured in movies. Listen to Movie Musicals! includes an overview of musical theatre and movie musicals in the United States. The 50 movies chosen for critical analysis include many of the best-known film musicals of the past and present; however, the list also includes several important movie musicals that were popular successes that are not necessarily on the "best-of" lists in other books. This volume also includes a greater focus on the actual music of movie musicals than do most other books, making it a stand-out title on the topic for high school and college readers. Like the other books in this series, this volume includes a background chapter followed by a chapter that contains 50 important essays on must-hear movie musicals of approximately 1,500 words each. Chapters on the impact of movie musicals on popular culture and the legacy of movie musicals further explain the impact of both the movies and their songs.
The Movies Greatest Musicals
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Author : Hugh Fordin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Movies Greatest Musicals written by Hugh Fordin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Musical films categories.
The Movie Musical From Vitaphone To 42nd Street As Reported In A Great Fan Magazine
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Author : Miles Kreuger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Movie Musical From Vitaphone To 42nd Street As Reported In A Great Fan Magazine written by Miles Kreuger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Music categories.
Relive the excitement of the beginning of "talking pictures" and the movie musical, see all the hoopla and headlines for the new "100% Talking-Singing-Dancing" movies, read about the screen performances and private lives of the new film stars--it's all here in one beautiful package, everything you could want to know about the movie musical in its crucial, formative years, 1926 to 1933. Just as they appeared in the pages of a great fan magazine durin thsi time are every movie review, cast list, ad, and record review, and every significant feature article, production still, biography, forecast, and gossip story. You will find hundreds of photographs, including scenes from films, photo stories, pictures in ads, and full-page glamor photos of such "new" stars as Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier, Lillian Roth, Marilyn Miller, and Marlene Dietrich. Dozens of full-page ads bring you the actual publicity efforts that went on for each film. Feature stories tell you about the lives of Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor, Bessie Love, Jimmy Durante, Joe E. Brown, and others, and feature articles report on the new process of sound movies, voice dubbing, the new songwriters in Hollywood, the extra girls, and more. Finally there are reviews and complete cast lists of all the movie musicals: My Man with Fannie Brice, The Desert Song (1929), Show Boat (1929), The Cocoanuts with the Marx Brothers, Hollywood Revue of 1929, King Vidor's Hallelujah, Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade, The Vagabond Lover with Rudy Vallee, Montana Moon with Joan Crawford, Happy Days, Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan, and many others. All are arranged chronologically by month and year, and exhaustive indexes catalog all the films and performers. The editor, Miles Kreuger, head of the Institute of the American Musical and the foremost authority on Hollywood musicals, has provided an introduction outlining the little-known history of sound films from the 1890s through 1928 and has written informative brief texts for each of the following years through 1933 and for a final section on Record Reviews.
Hollywood Musicals
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Author : Ken Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Release Date : 2010
Hollywood Musicals written by Ken Bloom and has been published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Performing Arts categories.
Offers an alphabetical survey of the most popular film musicals in history, with commentaries, synopses, behind-the-scenes information, and lists of songs and cast members for each film.
The Melody Lingers On
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Author : Roy Hemming
language : en
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Release Date : 2000-03-10
The Melody Lingers On written by Roy Hemming and has been published by Newmarket Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-10 with Music categories.
Perfect for holiday gift giving, this is the first book to celebrate composers who contributed the most to the "Golden Age" of movie musicals--complete with filmographies and listings of 800 movies and 2,000 songs. 150 black-and-white photographs.
The Movie Musical
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Author : Jeanine Basinger
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2019-11-05
The Movie Musical written by Jeanine Basinger and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-05 with Performing Arts categories.
Irresistible and authoritative, The Movie Musical! is an in-depth look at the singing, dancing, happy-making world of Hollywood musicals, beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white--an essential text for anyone who's ever laughed, cried, or sung along at the movies. 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. From Fred Astaire, whom she adores, to La La Land, which she deplores, Basinger examines a dazzling array of stars, strategies, talents, and innovations in the history of musical cinema. Whether analyzing a classic Gene Kelly routine, relishing a Nelson-Jeanette operetta, or touting a dynamic hip hop number (in the underrated Idlewild), she is a canny and charismatic guide to the many ways that song and dance have been seen--and heard--on film. With extensive portraits of everyone from Al Jolson, the Jazz Singer; to Doris Day, whose iconic sunniness has overshadowed her dramatic talents; from Deanna Durbin, that lovable teen-star of the '30s and '40s; to Shirley T. and Judy G.; from Bing to Frank to Elvis; from Ann Miller to Ann-Margret; from Disney to Chicago . . . focusing on many beloved, iconic films (Top Hat; Singin' in the Rain; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Sound of Music) as well as unduly obscure gems (Eddie Cantor's Whoopee!; Murder at the Vanities; Sun Valley Serenade; One from the Heart), this book is astute, informative, and pure pleasure to read.
The Movie Musical
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Author : Desirée J. Garcia
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-15
The Movie Musical written by Desirée J. Garcia and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-15 with Music categories.
"With the release of each new musical film, critics ask, "Has the musical returned?" The very frequency of the question would seem to belie its implication. Indeed, while musicals have changed over time, they have never truly gone away. This point becomes especially clear if we look beyond the "golden age" of the 1940s and 50s, beyond Hollywood, and even beyond the United States. The Movie Musical is a thematic exploration of the genre with a focus on how the musical changes and adapts in order to preserve its own relevance. From The Jazz Singer (1927), The Sound of Music (1965) to La La Land (2016) and The Greatest Showman (2017) and many more, the book traverses time and space, from the classical period of musical film production at midcentury to the present, and from Hollywood to Europe, the United Kingdom, and Asia. Chapters explore the genre as an archive of its own formation, its engagement with race, ethnicity, and gender, and its relationship to ever evolving technologies and media. Ultimately, the book tells a story of the musical's evolution that denies the familiar narrative that the genre is in crisis; instead, The Movie Musical demonstrates that, if we look beyond the familiar places, we see that the musical is dynamic, capacious, and always with us"--