Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When it Went to Hollywood

Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When it Went to Hollywood

Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When it Went to Hollywood

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This book is about the transition that musicals went through when they traveled from the stage to the screen. While the approach is critical, the style is readable and yields fascinating knowledge on the many things that did and didn't happen as theatre and film have merged throughout the past century.Hischak'sanalysis covers productions from The Desert Song (1927), to Chicago (2002).

Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When it Went to Hollywood,Thomas S. Hischak,Scarecrow Press,0810850184,Film & Video - General,History and criticism,Musical films,Musicals,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Theater - Broadway & Musical Revue,Theater - History & Criticism,United States,Films, cinema,Musical theatre,Performing Arts / Broadway & Musical Revue

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