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Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen
Directors of Golden Age Hollywood Musicals
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eBook - PDF
Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen
Directors of Golden Age Hollywood Musicals
About this book
An introduction to movie musicals in the golden age of Hollywood and the directors that brought them to the big screen.
The role directors have played in American cinema cannot be overstated, particularly how they shaped and developed the medium during Hollywood's golden age. Little appreciation has been paid though to the individual directors' accomplishments with regards to the musical film, a genre that remains popular today. When the first film musicals were made, there were no experienced movie directors for the new genre. Instead of recruiting stage directors, Hollywood turned to the seasoned directors currently under contract and assigned them to make talkies with song and dance.
In Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen, Thomas S. Hischak looks at the contribution that twenty-seven Hollywood directors made to the art of the movie musical during the exciting and prolific golden age of cinema. Some directors flourished with the new genre; others struggled and eventually were only assigned to traditional films. Some unknown directors found their niche in making musicals and much of their subsequent careers were in the new genre. Yet even those directors who made only a handful of musicals sometimes delivered musical classics. This book will look at them all, focusing on the directors' musicals and how they compare to their non-musical works.
Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen covers movie musicals made from the first talkies up through the 1950s, from The Jazz Singer in 1927 to Gigi in 1958. Hischak explores the directors' careers and film musicals chronologically and includes biographical information for each director. Readers will learn about both famous and obscure film musicals, making this the perfect guide for movie and musical fans alike.
The role directors have played in American cinema cannot be overstated, particularly how they shaped and developed the medium during Hollywood's golden age. Little appreciation has been paid though to the individual directors' accomplishments with regards to the musical film, a genre that remains popular today. When the first film musicals were made, there were no experienced movie directors for the new genre. Instead of recruiting stage directors, Hollywood turned to the seasoned directors currently under contract and assigned them to make talkies with song and dance.
In Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen, Thomas S. Hischak looks at the contribution that twenty-seven Hollywood directors made to the art of the movie musical during the exciting and prolific golden age of cinema. Some directors flourished with the new genre; others struggled and eventually were only assigned to traditional films. Some unknown directors found their niche in making musicals and much of their subsequent careers were in the new genre. Yet even those directors who made only a handful of musicals sometimes delivered musical classics. This book will look at them all, focusing on the directors' musicals and how they compare to their non-musical works.
Bringing Song and Dance to the Screen covers movie musicals made from the first talkies up through the 1950s, from The Jazz Singer in 1927 to Gigi in 1958. Hischak explores the directors' careers and film musicals chronologically and includes biographical information for each director. Readers will learn about both famous and obscure film musicals, making this the perfect guide for movie and musical fans alike.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 All Singing, No Talking Alan Crosland and The Jazz Singer
- 2 The Pioneers Lloyd Bacon • Harry Beaumont • King Vidor
- 3 Outside the Box Thornton Freeland • W. S. Van Dyke • James Whale
- 4 Something with Style Rouben Mamoulian • Ernst Lubitsch • Vincente Minnelli
- 5 Prolific Professionals Norman Taurog • Roy Del Ruth • David Butler • Michael Curtiz • Walter Lang
- 6 Star Handlers Irving Cummings • Mark Sandrich • Richard Thorpe • Charles Vidor
- 7 Not Who You’d Expect Raoul Walsh • George Stevens • George Cukor • Victor Fleming
- 8 Choreographer to Director Busby Berkeley • Charles Walters • Stanley Donen • Gene Kelly
- Appendix: Directors and Their Film Musical Credits
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Titles
- About the Author