The Oxford handbook of musical theatre screen adaptations /
Hollywood's conversion to sound in the 1920s created an early peak in the film musical, following the immense success of The Jazz Singer. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around 30 years of development, with The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St Louis, Singi...
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Table of Contents:
- The Shifting Sands of Orientalism: The Desert Song on Stage and Screen / William A. Everett
- Rescoring Anything Goes in 1930s Hollywood / Allison Robbins
- "A Humane, Practical and Beautiful Solution": Adaptation and Triangulation in Paint Your Wagon / Megan Woller
- Adapting Pal Joey: Post-War Anxieties and the Playmate / Julianne Lindberg
- The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation / Dean Adams
- Fidelity vs. Freedom in Miloš Forman's film version of Hair / Andrew Buchman
- / Ian Sapiro
- Lost in Translation: The Strange Case of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel / Tim Carter
- The Fascinating Moment of Godspell: Its Cinematic Adaptation in the Shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass / Paul R. Laird
- Little Shop of Horrors: Breaking the Rules all the Way to the Big (Enormous, 12-inch) Screen / Jonas Westover
- Li'l Abner from Comic Strip to Hollywood / Jim Lovensheimer
- The Party's Over: On the Town, Bells are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York / Martha Shearer
- / Elizabeth Titrington Craft
- Into the Woods from Stage to Screen / Mark Eden Horowitz
- Getting Real: Stage Musical vs. Filmic Realism in Film Adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret / Raymond Knapp
- Loud, Pretty, Strong, White [Repeat]: The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Operettas at MGM (1935-1942) / Todd Decker
- Flamboyance, Exuberance, and Schmaltz: Half a Sixpence and the Broadway Adaptation in 1960s Hollywood / Amanda McQueen
- Carol Burnett and the Ends of Variety: Parody, Nostalgia, and Analysis of the American Musical / Robynn J. Stilwell
- Brigadoon and its Transition to MGM Musical: Adapting a Stage Show for Star Dancers / Susan Smith
- Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, and Giacomo Meyerbeer Meet Rio Rita, or, What's In a Name? / John Graziano
- / Dominic McHugh
- From Novel to Stage to Screen: Adapting Roberta / Geoffrey Block
- "Is this the right material, girl?" How Madonna Makes Us Like Eva but Not Necessarily Evita / Richard J. Allen
- Cole Porter's List Songs on Stage and Screen / Cliff Eisen
- / Hannah Robbins
- "An Elegant Legacy": The Aborted Cartoon Adaptation of Finian's Rainbow / Danielle Birkett
- The Streisand Adaptations / Dominic McHugh.