Hollywood Musicals You Missed

Seventy Noteworthy Films from the 1930s (livre en anglais)

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de Edwin M. Bradley

Type: Critiques de films
Sujet: Genre > Comédie musicale
Mots Clés: comédie musicale, années 30, critiques
Année d'édition: 2020
Editeur: McFarland & Co
Langue: anglais

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Broché • 306 pages
18 x 25,5 cm

ISBN

978-1-4766-7358-5

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Description de l'ouvrage :
Pre-World War II Hollywood musicals weren’t only about Astaire and Rogers, Mickey and Judy, Busby Berkeley, Bing Crosby, or Shirley Temple. The early musical developed through tangents that reflected larger trends in film and American culture at large. Here is a survey of select titles with a variety of influences: outsized songwriter personalities, hubbub over “hillbilly” and cowboy stereotypes, the emergence of swing, and the brief parade of opera stars to celluloid. Featured movies range from the smash hit Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938), to obscurities such as Are You There? (1930) and Swing, Sister, Swing (1938), to the high-grossing but now forgotten Mountain Music (1937), and It’s Great to Be Alive (1933), a zesty pre-Code musical/science-fiction/comedy mishmash. Also included are some of the not-so-memorable pictures made by some of the decade’s greatest musical stars.

À propos de l'auteur :
The late Edwin M. Bradley was the associate curator of film at the Flint (Michigan) Institute of Arts. He published four books on early Hollywood film.

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