Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter
- Author: Barrios, Richard
Richard Barrios's survey of the genre dives vividly into all its contradictions, its seemingly accidental triumphs, and its most effortful, well-meant failures. He knows the litany of films inside... — More…
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Contents
- A Note of Explanation
- Introduction ALL THAT JAZZ
- Chapter One EVERYTHING'S BEEN DONE BEFORE
- Chapter Two WHERE DO THEY COME FROM (AND WHERE DO THEY GO?)
- Chapter Three SEEING'S BELIEVING
- Chapter Four PEOPLE From Jolson to Justin in 85 Years
- Chapter Five THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE
- Chapter Six MUSIC MAKES ME
- Chapter Seven WITH PLENTY OF MONEY
- Chapter Eight I GET THE NECK OF THE CHICKEN
- Chapter Nine TURN ON THE HEAT
- Chapter Ten PAINTING THE CLOUDS Snow White, South Park, and Other Ways to Animate a Musical
- Chapter Eleven UNDER MY SKIN Musicals and Race, Musicals and Sexuality
- Chapter Twelve PUT 'EM IN A BOX
- Epilogue DREAM DANCING