From stage to screen
Subtitle: musical films in Europe and United States (1927-1961)
By: edited by Massimiliano Sala
Series: Speculum musicae -- v. 19; Speculum musicae -- v. 19.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9782503546148
Subjects: Musical films; History and criticism
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index of names.

15 English, 1 Spanish, 4 Italian contributions.
Table of contents: title: Can't help lovin' dat musical: Show Boat in films and revivals  -- Lauren Acton; title: The docu-opera in the Italian cinema of the 1940's: another way to see the opera on the screen  -- Beatrice Birardi; title: 'Camillo De Nardis e il cinema': documenti inediti  -- Antonio Caroccia; title: Music in ex-Yugoslav cinematography 1945-1961: on the road to musical  -- Marija Ćirić; title: Film musicals as cinema of attractions  -- Jonathan De Souza; title: From Liliom to Carousel to Liliom  -- James I. Deutsch, Lauren R. Shaw; title: The finality of stories such as these: exploring narrative and concept in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods  -- Alexandra Grabarchuk; title: The country girl, the emperor and some saltsticks: the musical film Spring Parade, its affinity to Viennese operetta and the changing contexts of its screen adaptations  -- Clara Huber; title: Copland on Wilder: scoring existential theatre in early American film -- Ryan Patrick Jones; title: Getting off the trolley: musical contra cinematic reality  -- Raymond Knapp; title: Carmen Jones, a faithful adaptation of Bizet's opera?  -- Isabelle Le Corf, Cécile Vendramini; title: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get): movie musical, film musicale, film di argomento musicale: è necessario distinguere  -- Sergio Miceli; title: El protagonismo femenino-masculino en los musicales de Fred Astaire y Gene Kelly: vigencia y actualidad  -- Matilde Olarte; title: Carmen Jones: between opera and musical  -- Jaume Radigales, Isabel Villanueva; title: L'influenza del melodrama ottocentesco da Showboat a Sondheim  -- Elena Redaelli; title: Love Life e Trouble in Tahiti: rappresentazione della famiglia americana  -- Marida Rizzuti; title: "Lippen schweigen, 's flüstern Geigen: Hab mich Lieb!" Seduction, power relations and Lubitsch's touch in The Merry Widow  -- Delphine Vincent; title: Betty meets Cab: the hi-de-ho man animated -- Emile Wennekes; title: Technology, authenticity, and the pastoral ideal: viewing Oklahoma through the lens of Todd-AO  -- Leanne Wood; title: The elusive Mary Poppins: issues of gender and class in the Disney version (1964) and Mosfilm's Mary Poppins Goodbye (1983) -- Iryna Yaroshchuk.