Thomas Hischak

Musicals in Film

A Guide to the Genre

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form-and discover films they'll love. This comprehensive guide covers movie musicals from their introduction with the 1927 film The Jazz Singer through 2015 releases. In all, it describes 125 movies, opening up the world of this popular form of entertainment to preteens, teens, and adults alike. An introduction explains the advent of movie musicals; then, in keeping with the book's historical approach, films are presented by decade and year with overviews of advances during particular periods. In this way, the reader not only learns about individual films but can see the big picture of how movie musicals developed and changed over time. For each film covered, the guide offers basic facts-studio, director, songwriters, actors, etc.-as well as a brief plot synopsis. Each entry also offers an explanation of why the movie is noteworthy, how popular it was or wasn't, and the influence the film might have had on later musicals. Sidebars offering brief biographies of important artists appear throughout the book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1090g
• ISBN-13: 9781440844225
• ISBN-10: 1440844224
• Artikelnr.: 44886076

Autorenporträt

Thomas Hischak is the author of over forty published plays which are performed in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia. His playwriting awards include the Stanley Drama Award (New York City) for Cold War Comedy, the Julie Harris Playwriting Award (Beverly Hills, California) for The Cardiff Giant, and a winner of the AACT 2016 New Play Fest for The Emperor of North America. Hischak is also the author of twenty-eight non-fiction books about theatre, film, and popular music, including The Oxford Companion to the American Musical, 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year, The Disney Song Encyclopedia, and The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. He was Professor of Theatre at the State University of New York at Cortland for thirty-three years and was also a Fulbright scholar who taught and directed in Greece, Lithuania, and Turkey. He now is Adjunct Professor of theatre and film at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

Biographies List Introduction: Who Needs Talking? Timeline of Movie
Musicals Movie Musical Terms Movie Musical Genres History of the Movie
Musical The 1920s: Learning to Sing On-Screen The 1930s: Singing and
Dancing through a Depression The 1940s: Musicals during a World War The
1950s: Competing with Television The 1960s: Musicals during a Revolution
The 1970s: Struggling to Survive The 1980s and 1990s: Looking for New Forms
for Musicals Musicals since 2000: A Rebirth of Sorts Bibliography Index