Matthew Kennedy

Roadshow!

The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s

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Produktbeschreibung

In Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, film historian Matthew Kennedy explores the downfall of a beloved genre caught in the hands of misguided creators who glutted the American film market with a spate of expensive and financially unrewarding musicals between 1967 and 1972.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780190262440
• ISBN-10: 0190262443
• Artikelnr.: 47864245

Autorenporträt

Matthew Kennedy is a writer, film historian, and anthropologist. His books include three biographies of classic Hollywood figures: Marie Dressler, Edmund Goulding's Dark Victory, and Joan Blondell. He lives in San Francisco.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Overture
Chapter 1 - The Musical That Ate Hollywood
Chapter 2 - "I, Too, Can Sing"
Chapter 3 - The Animal Kingdom
Chapter 4 - Movie Stars
Chapter 5 - Smoke and Gold
Chapter 6 - Over-Egg the Pudding
Chapter 7 - Do Little
Chapter 8 - Casting About
Chapter 9 - Buying and Selling
Chapter 10 - "Impossible to Control the Cost of This Gown"
Chapter 11 - Battle of the Girls
Chapter 12 - Delayed Adolescence
Chapter 13 - The Paramount Bloodsuckers
Chapter 14 - Goodbye, MGM
Chapter 15 - Numbers
Chapter 16 - "Magnificent Apathy"
Chapter 17 - Acts of Faith
Chapter 18 - The Impossible Dream
Exit Music
Appendix A
Appendix B
References
Bibliography
Index