Richard Barrios

Dangerous Rhythm

Why Movie Musicals Matter

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Produktbeschreibung

Insightful, exuberant, and witty, Dangerous Rhythm offers a fresh, sometimes revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. Combining chronicle with critique and analysis, award-winning historian Richard Barrios lays out the whole of the musical's glorious and rocky existence, from Al Jolson to Les Miserables.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199973842
• ISBN-10: 0199973849
• Artikelnr.: 39741141

Autorenporträt

Richard Barrios worked in the music and film industries before turning to film history with the award-winning A Song in the Dark and Screened Out. He lectures extensively and appears frequently on television and in film and DVD documentaries. Born in the swamps of south Louisiana and a longtime resident of New York City, he now lives in bucolic suburban Philadelphia.

Inhaltsangabe

* A Note of Explanation
* Introduction ALL THAT JAZZ
* Chapter One EVERYTHING'S BEEN DONE BEFORE
* Chapter Two WHERE DO THEY COME FROM (AND WHERE DO THEY GO?)
* Chapter Three SEEING'S BELIEVING
* Chapter Four PEOPLE From Jolson to Justin in 85 Years
* Chapter Five THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
* Chapter Six MUSIC MAKES ME
* Chapter Seven WITH PLENTY OF MONEY
* Chapter Eight I GET THE NECK OF THE CHICKEN
* Chapter Nine TURN ON THE HEAT
* Chapter Ten PAINTING THE CLOUDS Snow White, South Park, and Other
Ways to Animate a Musical
* Chapter Eleven UNDER MY SKIN Musicals and Race, Musicals and
Sexuality
* Chapter Twelve PUT 'EM IN A BOX
* Epilogue DREAM DANCING