Dominic Mchugh

Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations traces how the genre of the stage-to-screen musical has evolved, from The Jazz Singer to The Wizard of Oz, Roberta, and Into the Woods.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1328g
• ISBN-13: 9780190469993
• ISBN-10: 0190469994
• Artikelnr.: 55343631

Autorenporträt

Dominic McHugh is Reader in Musicology at the University of Sheffield. His publications include the books Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (2012), Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters (2014), The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner (2018) and Adapting The Wizard of Oz: From Baum to MGM and Beyond (2018). He has appeared on BBC TV and radio numerous times, and has acted as a consultant to the Sydney Opera House's production of My Fair Lady, directed by Julie Andrews, as well as the Lincoln Center Theater production of the same musical.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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