The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations
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The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

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Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen. The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, starting with screen adaptations of operettas such as The Desert Song and Rio Rita, and looks at how the Hollywood studios in the 1930s exploited the publication of sheet music as part of their income. Numerous chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, including not only favorites such as Annie and Kiss Me, Kate but also some of the lesser-known titles like Li'l Abner and Roberta and problematic adaptations such as Carousel and Paint Your Wagon. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.

Table of Contents:
Contributors Acknowledgements About the Companion Website Introduction Part I: An introduction to the Stage-to-Screen Adaptation CHAPTER 1 "And I'll Sing Once More": A Historical Overview of the Broadway Musical on the Silver Screen DOMINIC McHUGH CHAPTER 2 From Novel to Stage to Screen: Adapting Roberta GEOFFREY BLOCK CHAPTER 3 Getting Real: Stage Musical vs. Filmic Realism in Film Adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret RAYMOND KNAPP CHAPTER 4 The Party's Over: On the Town, Bells are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York MARTHA SHEARER CHAPTER 5 Into the Woods from Stage to Screen MARK EDEN HOROWITZ Part II: The Politics of Adaptation CHAPTER 6 Li'l Abner from Comic Strip to Hollywood JAMES LOVENSHEIMER CHAPTER 7 Fidelity vs. Freedom in Milos Forman's film version of Hair ANDREW BUCHMAN CHAPTER 8 "An Elegant Legacy": The Aborted Cartoon Adaptation of Finian's Rainbow DANIELLE BIRKETT CHAPTER 9 Little Shop of Horrors: Breaking the Rules all the Way to the Big (Enormous, 12-inch) Screen JONAS WESTOVER CHAPTER 10 The Fascinating Moment of Godspell: Its Cinematic Adaptation in the Shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass PAUL LAIRD Part III: Biography and Identities: Race, Sexuality, and Gender CHAPTER 11 Adapting Pal Joey: Post-War Anxieties and the Playmate JULIANNE LINDBERG CHAPTER 12 "Too Darn Hot": Reimagining Kiss Me, Kate for the Silver Screen HANNAH ROBBINS CHAPTER 13 "A Humane, Practical, and Beautiful Solution": Adaptation and Triangulation in Paint Your Wagon MEGAN WOLLER CHAPTER 14 "A Great American Service": George M. Cohan, the Stage, and the Nation in Yankee Doodle Dandy ELIZABETH CRAFT CHAPTER 15 Cole Porter's List Songs on Stage and Screen CLIFF EISEN Part IV: Stars and Adaptation CHAPTER 16 Loud, Pretty, Strong, White [Repeat]: The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Operettas at MGM (1935-1942) TODD DECKER CHAPTER 17 Brigadoon and its Transition to MGM Musical: Adapting a Stage Show for Star Dancers SUSAN SMITH CHAPTER 18 "Is this the right material, girl?": How Madonna Makes Us Like Eva But Not Necessarily Evita RICHARD ALLEN CHAPTER 19 The Streisand adaptations DOMINIC McHUGH Part V: Multiple Adaptations of a Single Work CHAPTER 20 The Shifting Sand of Orientalism: The Desert Song on Stage and Screen WILLIAM A. EVERETT CHAPTER 21 "You Will Know That She is Our Annie": Comparing Three Adaptations of a Broadway Classic IAN SAPIRO CHAPTER 22 The Three Faces of Rio Rita JOHN GRAZIANO Part VI: Audiences, Producers, Studios CHAPTER 23 Lost in Translation: The Strange Case of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel TIM CARTER CHAPTER 24 Carol Burnett and the Ends of Variety: Parody, Nostalgia, and Analysis of the American Musical ROBYNN STILWELL CHAPTER 25 Flamboyance, Exuberance, and Schmaltz: Half a Sixpence and the Broadway Adaptation in 1960s Hollywood AMANDA McQUEEN CHAPTER 26 The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation DEAN ADAMS CHAPTER 27 Rescoring Anything Goes in 1930s Hollywood ALLISON ROBBINS Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780190469993
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 175 mm
  • No of Pages: 696
  • Spine Width: 43 mm
  • Width: 249 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0190469994
  • Publisher Date: 03 Oct 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 1364 gr


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