That Was Entertainment - The Golden Age of the Mgm Musical

Informationen zum Autor Bernard F. Dick is professor of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is author of many books, including The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television ; The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes ; That Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical ; The Screen Is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War ; The President's Ladies: Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis ; Hollywood Madonna: Loretta Young ; Forever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell ; and Claudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty , all published by University Press of Mississippi. Klappentext Traces the development of the MGM musical from The Broadway Melody (1929) through its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and its decline in the 1960s. That Was Entertainment uniquely reconstructs the life of Arthur Freed, whose unit at MGM became the gold standard against which the musicals of other studios were measured.

Product details

• Authors: Bernard F Dick, Bernard F. Dick
• Publisher: University press of mississipp
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781496817334
• ISBN: 978-1-4968-1733-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik, PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Musicals