The movie musical! / Jeanine Basinger.

Author: Basinger, Jeanine, author.

Edition Statement:First edition.

ImprintNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019]

Descriptionxiii, 634 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:"A Borzoi book."

Note:Introduction -- About musicals -- Origins: the arrival of sound -- 1933: a musical year -- Stars and strategies -- The musical as an art form -- The death of the musical? -- Epitaph -- Final number.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-604) and index.

Note:"Leading film historian Jeanine Basinger reveals, with her trademark wit and zest, the whole story of the Hollywood musical in the most telling, most incisive, most detailed, most gorgeously illustrated book of her long and remarkable career." --Book jacket.

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