Richard Barrios

Gebundenes Buch

Dangerous Rhythm

Why Movie Musicals Matter

Beschreibung

Insightful, exuberant, and witty, Dangerous Rhythm offers a fresh, sometimes revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. Combining chronicle with critique and analysis, award-winning historian Richard Barrios lays out the whole of the musical's glorious and rocky existence, from Al Jolson to Les Miserables.

Autor

Richard Barrios worked in the music and film industries before turning to film history with the award-winning A Song in the Dark and Screened Out. He lectures extensively and appears frequently on television and in film and DVD documentaries. Born in the swamps of south Louisiana and a longtime resident of New York City, he now lives in bucolic suburban Philadelphia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199973842
• ISBN-10: 0199973849
• Artikelnr.: 39741141