Editorial Reviews
Review
"Impressive and admirable.... Showstoppers is film scholarship and analysis of a very high order." -- Jerome Delamater, Hollywood Musical
"Rubin has demonstrated the degree to which 'Busby Berkeley' has become a catchword for a great number of contributors to the look of musicals. An exhaustively researched work, it is nonetheless lively and readable and will delight both movie buffs and general readers." -- Andrew Sarris, author of The American Cinema
Book Description
The first major analyses of Busby Berkeley's career on stage and screen. Showstoppers emphasizes his relationship to a colorful, somewhat disreputable tradition of American popular entertainment: that of P.T Barnum, minstrel shows, vaudeville, Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, burlesque, and the Ziegfeld Follies. Rubin shows how Berkeley absorbed the declining theatrical tradition during his years as a Broadway dance director and then transferred it to the new genre of the early movie musical. With lively prose and engaging photographs, Showstoppers explores new ways of looking at Busby Berkeley, at the musical genre, and at individual film.
Showstoppers
Showstoppers,Martin Rubin,Columbia University Press,0231080549,1895-,Berkeley, Busby,,Cinema/Film: Book,Criticism and interpretation,Film & Video - Direction & Production,Film & Video - History & Criticism,History,History and criticism,Musical Films,Musical theater,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Theater,United States,Berkeley, Busby
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