Love Me Tonight - A Chronical of 500 Days

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to the remarkable musical film, Love Me Tonight (1932) from a accessible musicological perspective, giving readers of all stripes new ways to hear this classic film.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Introducing the Major Players and Developing the Screenplay for a Fairy Tale Musical


• Chapter 2: Songs by Rodgers and Hart


• Chapter 3: Rodgers the Musical "Auteur": Instrumental Numbers, Leitmotivs, Borrowing, Allusions, and Underscoring


• Chapter 4: Sex and Censorship


• Chapter 5: The Reception of Love Me Tonight from Its Time to Ours


• Index


• Bibliography

About the author

Geoffrey Block is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music History and Humanities at the University of Puget Sound. He is the series editor for Oxford's Broadway Legacies and has published widely on American musical theater and film. His previous titles include Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from “Show Boat” to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, The Richard Rodgers Reader, and A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era.

Summary

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to the remarkable musical film, Love Me Tonight (1932) from a accessible musicological perspective, giving readers of all stripes new ways to hear this classic film.

Product details

• Authors: Mariano Artigas, Prof Mariano (Professor of Philosophy of Artigas, Geoffrey Block, Geoffrey (Distinguished Professor of Music Block, Shea William R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2024
• EAN: 9780197566190
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756619-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Oxford Guides to Film Musicals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; RELIGION / Ancient, Films, cinema, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Film production: technical & background skills, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Filmmaking and production: technical and background skills