Dangerous Rhythm
Why Movie Musicals Matter
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 July 2014
- ISBN 9780199973842
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 236x163x25 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 halftones 0
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Short description:
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 Misérables.
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Insightful, witty, as exuberant as its subject matter, Dangerous Rhythm offers a fresh, revolutionary take on a uniquely American institution: the movie musical. In a book that is at once history, analysis, investigation, and meditation, noted film historian Richard Barrios takes on the entire musical spectrum, from Al Jolson and The Broadway Melody to hip-hop and Les Misérables. Over nine decades, the musical film has been a cornerstone of the entertainment world, yet its existence has been more erratic that any other type of film. Barrios delves deep into the genre, uncovering what makes it a commercially and artistically successful art form that, despite falling in and out of favor with the American public, has a firm and enduring hold on the American cultural imagination. Each chapter focuses on a core issue relating to the musical film: what does it take to make a successful musical performer? What is the relationship between film musicals and Broadway musicals? How does the rise of certain types of popular music, such as rock or rap, affect how the musical film is received? Through it all, Barrios argues definitively and irresistibly that, as the book's subtitle asserts, movie musicals matter -- yet, as the title implies, they are terribly difficult to do well. But when they are right, they transport and captivate viewers, striking deeply resonant chords of identification and wish-fulfillment, as well as or better than any other kind of movie.
This is a book by someone who is indeed captivated: a love letter for the best of musical cinema and a blown raspberry for the worst...
Table of Contents:
A Note of Explanation
Introduction ALL THAT JAZZ
Chapter One EVERYTHING'S BEEN DONE BEFORE
Chapter Two WHERE DO THEY COME FROM (AND WHERE DO THEY GO?)
Chapter Three SEEING'S BELIEVING
Chapter Four PEOPLE From Jolson to Justin in 85 Years
Chapter Five THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
Chapter Six MUSIC MAKES ME
Chapter Seven WITH PLENTY OF MONEY
Chapter Eight I GET THE NECK OF THE CHICKEN
Chapter Nine TURN ON THE HEAT
Chapter Ten PAINTING THE CLOUDS Snow White, South Park, and Other Ways to Animate a Musical
Chapter Eleven UNDER MY SKIN Musicals and Race, Musicals and Sexuality
Chapter Twelve PUT 'EM IN A BOX
Epilogue DREAM DANCING
