Richard Barrios

Dangerous Rhythm

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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 Misérables.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780190262617
• ISBN-10: 0190262613
• Artikelnr.: 47863650

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 with Screened Out, which was the basis of a film series by Turner Classic Movies. 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 western New Jersey, near 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
* Epilog DREAM DANCING