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Call No: 751.1(73) OXF
Author: Knapp, Raymond; Morris, Mitchell; Wolf, Stacy
Edition: paperback
Source: US/UK
Place: Oxford ; New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 2011, 2013
PhysDes: x, 470 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject: AUDIENCES; AUTHORSHIP; BLACKS AND THE CINEMA. US; BOX OFFICE. USA; COMEDIES; DANCE IN FILMS; GENDER AND THE CINEMA; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA; HISTORY OF CINEMA; HOLLYWOOD; IDENTITY IN FILMS; IDEOLOGY IN FILMS; MEDIA AND THE CINEMA; MUSIC IN FILMS; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; MUSICALS. USA; RACE AND THE CINEMA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; ANDREWS, JULIE; ASTAIRE, FRED; BERLIN, IRVING; FOSSE, BOB; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II; KERN, JEROME; MERMAN, ETHEL; ROBBINS, JEROME; SONDHEIM, STEPHEN; BLACK CROOK, THE (US, Robert G. Vignola, 1916); CABARET (US, Bob Fosse, 1972); CHICAGO (US, Rob Marshall, 2002); CHORUS LINE (US, Richard Attenborough, 1985); FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (US, Norman Jewison, 1971); GUYS AND DOLLS (US, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955); GYPSY (US, Emile Ardolino, 1994); MY FAIR LADY (US, George Cukor, 1964); OKLAHOMA! (US, Fred Zinneman, 1955); PRODUCERS, THE (US, Mel Brooks, 1967); SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951); SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965); WEST SIDE STORY (US, Robert Wise, 1961)
Summary: "The Oxford Handbook of The American Musical offers new and cutting-edge essays on the most important and compelling issues and topics in the growing, interdisciplinary field of musical-theater and film-musical studies. Taking the form of a "keywords" book, it introduces readers to the concepts and terms that define the history of the musical as a genre and that offer ways to reflect on the specific creative choices that shape musicals and their performance on stage and screen. The handbook offers a cross-section of essays written by leading experts in the field, organized within broad conceptual groups, which together capture the breadth, direction, and tone of musicals studies today." - GOOGLE BOOKS
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index
ISBN: 9780199987368
Contents: Part I: Historiography. Narratives and values / Mitchell Morris -- Texts and authors / Jim Lovensheimer -- Musical styles and song conventions / Paul R. Laird -- Evolution of dance in the golden age of the American "book musical" / Liza Gennaro; Part II: Transformations. Minstrelsy and theatrical miscegenation / Thomas L. Riis -- Tin Pan Alley songs on stage and screen before World War II / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- Integration / Geoffrey Block -- After the "golden age" / Jessica Sternfeld and Elizabeth L. Wollman; Part III: Media. Theater / Tamsen Wolff -- The filmed musical / Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris -- The television musical / Robynn J. Stilwell -- The animated film musical / Susan Smith -- The evolution of the original cast album / George Reddick; Part IV: Identities. Race, ethnicity, performance / Todd Decker -- Gender and sexuality / Stacy Wolf -- The politics of region and nation in American musicals / Chase A. Bringardner -- Class and culture / David Savran; Part V: Performance. The institutional structure of the American musical theater / David Sanjek -- Orchestration and arrangement : creating the Broadway sound / Dominic Symonds -- Musical theater directors / Barbara Wallace Grossman -- Sets, costumes, lights, and spectacle / Virginia Anderson -- Acting / John M. Clum -- Singing / Mitchell Morris and Raymond Knapp -- Dance and choreography / Zachary A. Dorsey; Part VI: Audiences. Box office / Steven Adler -- Audiences and critics / Michelle Dvoskin -- Stars and fans / Holley Replogle-Wong -- Knowing your audience / Jennifer Chapman -- Performance, authenticity, and the reflexive idealism of the American musical / Raymond Knapp

Call No: 751.1 KRE
Author: Kreuger, Miles
Source: US
Place: New York
Publisher: Oxford University Press
PubDate: 1977
PhysDes: x, 246 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Subject: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; MUSIC AND THE CINEMA; MUSICALS. USA; THEATRE AND THE CINEMA; BALLARD, LUCIEN; BROWN, JOE E.; DUNNE, IRENE; FERBER, ENDA; GARDNER, AVA; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II; KERN, JEROME; LA PLANTE, LAURA; ROBESON, PAUL; RODGERS, RICHARD; ZIEGFELD, FLORENZ; TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY (US, Richard Whorf, 1946); SHOWBOAT (US, Harry A. Pollard, 1929); SHOWBOAT (US, George Sidney, 1951)
Notes: Discography: p. 236-239 Includes index
ISBN: 0195022750
Donation: donated by the family of Wayne Levy, 2006

Call No: 79SOU FLI
Author: Flinn, Caryl
Source: UK
Place: London
Publisher: BFI published by Palgrave
PubDate: 2015
PhysDes: 112 pages : illustrations (black and white, colour) ; 19 cm.
Series: BFI Film Classics
Subject: MUSICALS; RODGERS, RICHARD; HAMMERSTEIN, OSCAR, II; ANDREWS, JULIE; SOUND OF MUSIC, THE (US, Robert Wise, 1965)
Summary: Fifty years after its release, The Sound of Music (1965) remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Quickly consolidating its cultural authority, the Hollywood film soon eclipsed the German film and Broadway musical that preceded it to become one of the most popular cultural reference points of the twenty-first century. In this fresh exploration, Caryl Flinn foregrounds the film's iconic musical numbers, arguing for their central role in the film's longevity and mass appeal. Stressing the unique emotional bond audiences establish with The Sound of Music, Flinn traces the film's prehistories, its place amongst the tumultuous political, social and cultural events of the 1960s, and its spirited afterlife among fans around the world.
ISBN: 9781844574742