Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780190262617
Category
Film History
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Publication Year
2014
Publisher
Pages
288
Subject
Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism. Musical films. United States.
Description
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.
Number of Copies
1
