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Free and easy? : a defining history of the American film musical genre
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- Creator
- Sean Griffin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hoboken, NJ, USA : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018
- Physical Details
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- vii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781405194969, 1405194960, 9781405194952, 1405194952, 9781118322840
- OCLC
- ocn963914614
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Overture : musical traditions before cinema -- You ain't heard nothin' yet : the sound revolution -- Face the music and dance : the depression -- Singing a song of freedom : World War II -- There's beauty everywhere : MGM and the freed unit -- Something's gotta give : the postwar musical -- Bustin' out all over : the rise of the musical blockbuster -- In a minor key : the B musical and beyond -- The sound of money : musicals in the 1960s -- Whistling in the dark : a genre in crisis -- Can't stop the music : musicals and the new Hollywood -- Just like Scheherezade : reviving the musical film genre