Broadway in the box : television's lasting love affair with the musical /
"Broadway in the Box shines a television-centric light on the cross-industry presence of a seminal American art form. Over seven chapters, it works to unearth, explore, and analyze pockets of over seventy years of television programming which embraced, nodded toward, and satirized the American...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Curtain up on primetime
- Small screen singalongs : television's infancy and the cultural cachet of the Great White Way
- "You know, Carol, comedy variety's a man's game" : male authorship, female performers, and small screen musical performance of the sixties
- Sequins and songs on the small screen : 1970s television variety and the popularization of the "BroadVegas" hybrid
- Quality and class or malls and music video : early cable narrowcasts the musical
- Primetime goes Hammerstein : the musicalization of primetime fictional television in the post-network era
- GLEEks of the week, Stage Tube, and #racheldoesstuff : social media and the hybridity of Broadway/television fandom and promotion in the 21st century musical series
- The hills are alive with live-ness (or not) : the uphill battle for the millennial television musical
- Conclusion: Over the rainbow, across screens, online, or in your Roku box.