Leonard Kniffel's Musicals on the Silver Screen: A Guide to the Must-See Movie PDF

By Leonard Kniffel

ISBN-10: 1937589307

ISBN-13: 9781937589301

Musicals tailored to the massive screen—from West part Story to The Phantom of the Opera—have loved a surprising quantity of good fortune because the Nineteen Forties, and this consultant is principally adapted to library buyers trying to find support selecting the best flick to monitor. The publication is geared up by way of decade, permitting readers to profit in regards to the nuances of every period of musical motion picture construction, and a description is paired with each one movie in addition to a proof of why it really is worthy viewing. looking at musicals and studying their heritage by way of libraries and records the place such movies are preserved and made on hand is seriously emphasized.

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