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A Song in the Dark
The Birth of the Musical Film
Second Edition
Richard Barrios
504 pages
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76 black and white halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-537734-7
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Paperback
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26 November 2009
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- Extensively rewritten, revised, and updated new edition that takes into consideration numerous film rediscoveries made since the initial edition
- Contains many new rare photographs, many not published in nearly 80 years makes connections with and builds on growing momentum in movie musicals more generally - Moulin Rouge!, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Rent, Mamma Mia!, Dreamgirls, various versions of High School Musical, and above all the Oscar-winning Chicago
- An eminently readable, enjoyable, entertaining account of a wild and turbulent era in film history
Drawing on meticulous research, sharp wit, and insightful analysis, Richard Barrios illuminates the origins of the movie musical in this extensively revised and updated edition of his highly acclaimed A Song in the Dark. From Warner Bros. and Jolson, to the Oscar-winning Broadway Melody and beyond, here is the whole funny and peculiar history of these films, their creators, and their audiences. Ranging from the smash hits of The Singing Fool and Sunny Side Up to bizarre flops like Golden Dawn and Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan, they form a body of work unlike anything else in the history of popular entertainment.
Here too are legendary performers, directors, and composers: from Fannie Brice, James Cagney, and Mae West, to Busby Berkeley, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, and countless others. With many new rare photographs, some not published in nearly 80 years, this new edition traces the rise and fall, and rise again, of this quintessential piece of the American experience.Readership: Film aficionados and musical aficionados. Students and scholars in film studies and in music theater studies. People wanting an enjoyable read about a strange group of movies and the people who made them.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1: VITAPHONE PRELUDE
2: THE SOUND BARRIER
3: "YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME"
4: ON WITH THE SHOW!
5: FINDING A VOICE
6: DUELING MAMMIES
7: HOLLYWOOD, REVUED
8: BROADWAY BABIES
9: "WITH ALL ITS ORIGINAL STAGE ENCHANTMENT"
10: JUST IMAGINE
11: THE CUCKOOS
12: OF VIENNESE NIGHTS AND GOLDEN DAWNS
13: IS IT A MUSICAL?
14: THE MARCH OF TIME
15: VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS
16: "WE'RE IN THE MONEY"
17: THE PAST AS PROLOGUE
FINALE
Appendix One:
NOTES ON LOST FILMS
Appendix Two:
A SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY: EARLY MUSICALS ON RECORD
SOURCE NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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