Roadshow!
The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2014. január 23.
- ISBN 9780199925674
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem320 oldal
- Méret 165x236x33 mm
- Súly 590 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 25 photographs 0
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Rövid leírás:
In this book, film historian Matthew Kennedy explores the downfall of a beloved genre caught in the hands of misguided creators who glutted the American film market with a spate of expensive and financially unrewarding musicals between 1967 and 1972. In doing so, it offers an alternative view of this era in the world of American popular entertainment.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
Full-page newspaper ads announced the date. Reserved seats went on sale at premium prices. Audience members dressed up and arrived early to peruse the program during the overture that preceded the curtain's rise. And when the show began, it was--a rather disappointing film musical.
In Roadshow!, film historian Matthew Kennedy tells the fascinating story of the downfall of the big-screen musical in the late 1960s. It is a tale of revolutionary cultural change, business transformation, and artistic missteps, all of which led to the obsolescence of the roadshow, a marketing extravaganza designed to make a movie opening in a regional city seem like a Broadway premier. Ironically, the Hollywood musical suffered from unexpected success. Facing doom after its bygone heyday, it suddenly broke box-office records with three rapid-fire successes in 1964 and 1965: Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music. Studios rushed to catch the wave, but everything went wrong. Kennedy takes readers inside the making of such movies as Hello, Dolly! and Man of La Mancha, showing how corporate management imposed financial pressures that led to poor artistic decisions-for example, the casting of established stars regardless of vocal or dancing talent (such as Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon). And Kennedy explores the impact of profound social, political, and cultural change. The traditional-sounding Camelot and Doctor Dolittle were released in the same year as Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, representing a vast gulf in taste. The artifice of musicals seemed outdated to baby boomers who grew up with the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations, race riots, and the Vietnam War.
From Julie Andrews to Barbra Streisand, from Fred Astaire to Rock Hudson, Roadshow! offers a brilliant, gripping history of film musicals and their changing place in our culture.
Road-Show The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s by Matthew Kennedy is not just a great entertaining book, it's not just a book for all lovers of the genre, but it's so funny, plenty of anecdotes, intriguing facts that you won't never put down this book until its end, trust me.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Acknowledgements
Overture
Chapter 1 - The Musical That Ate Hollywood
Chapter 2 - "I, Too, Can Sing"
Chapter 3 - The Animal Kingdom
Chapter 4 - Movie Stars
Chapter 5 - Smoke and Gold
Chapter 6 - Over-Egg the Pudding
Chapter 7 - Do Little
Chapter 8 - Casting About
Chapter 9 - Buying and Selling
Chapter 10 - "Impossible to Control the Cost of This Gown"
Chapter 11 - Battle of the Girls
Chapter 12 - Delayed Adolescence
Chapter 13 - The Paramount Bloodsuckers
Chapter 14 - Goodbye, MGM
Chapter 15 - Numbers
Chapter 16 - "Magnificent Apathy"
Chapter 17 - Acts of Faith
Chapter 18 - The Impossible Dream
Exit Music
Appendix A
Appendix B
References
Bibliography
Index
