American film musicals
By: Barry Keith Grant
Series: New approaches to film genre
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Malden
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405182539; 9781405182522
Subjects: Musical films; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Historical overview; title: Critical overview; title: Gold diggers of 1933 (Mervyn Leroy, 1933); title: Top hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935); title: The pirate (Vincente Minnelli, 1948); title: West side story (1961) and Saturday night fever; title: Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh, 1970); title: Phantom of the paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974); title: Pennies from heaven (Herbert Ross, 1981) and Across the universe (Julie Taymor, 2007).