Introduction
Acknowledgements
I The Conventions of Breaking into Song and Dance
Chapter 1--Expressive Thresholds and Anomalous Utterances
LLOYD WHITESELL
Chapter 2--"Make Like You're Singing It": Performing Musical Texture in Judy Garland's Early Films
DOMINIC SYMONDS
Chapter 3--Revealing the Subconscious: The Dream Ballet in Movie Musicals
KARA GARDNER
Chapter 4--Singing and Dancing in Widescreen: The Extreme Aesthetics of the Mid 1950s Studio Musical Number
TODD DECKER
II The Musical's Othering Impulse
Chapter 5--From Snow White to the Snow Queen: Voicing the Disney Princess
COLLEEN MONTGOMERY
Chapter 6--"Going Places": Musical Latins in Latin Musicals
DESIREE J. GARCIA
Chapter 7 --Performing Whiteness Through the First-Generation American Immigrant Experience from Viennese Nights to Perfect Pitch
WILLIAM EVERETT
Chapter 8 --"Cabenenic, Carabenic, Castalenic, Harlemenic": Reclaiming Blackness in Lena Horne's film musicals
HANNAH ROBBINS
Chapter 9--"I'd Do Anything" or Export Strategies for a Culturally Specific Product: Dubbing, Subtitling and Cutting the Hollywood Musical for the German-Austrian Market
OLAF JUBIN
III Production Histories
Chapter 10--"Hear the beat of dancing feet": 42nd Street (1933) and the "New" Film Musical
TIM CARTER
Chapter 11--When Fred Lost Ginger: Thoughts on the Genesis and Legacy of A Damsel in Distress
GEOFFREY BLOCK
Chapter 12--"The Perfect Nanny": Casting in Disney's Mary Poppins and the Children's Musical
MEGAN WOLLER
Chapter 13--Developing the Screenplay for Singin' in the Rain
ANDREW BUCHMAN
Chapter 14--Night and Day the Musical
CLIFF EISEN
IV Stars
Chapter 15--The Problem of Playing Oneself: Oscar Levant and the Hollywood Musical
NATHAN PLATTE
Chapter 16--"Hard to Replace": The Shadow of Judy Garland and the Artistic Remarriage of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Barkleys of Broadway
DOMINIC BROOMFIELD-McHUGH
Chapter 17--"The Same Story Told Over and Over:" The Mythology of Stardom in the Musical A Star is Born Films
JULIE LOBALZO WRIGHT
Chapter 18--The Auteur as Ghost Star: Vincente Minnelli's Framings of Judy Garland
RAYMOND KNAPP
Chapter 19--Esther Williams' Latin Lovers
STEVEN COHAN
V After the Studio System
Chapter 20--Xanadu and the Musical's History of Failure
MARTHA SHEARER
Chapter 21--'An Inescapable Failure:' The Little Prince, Realism, and the Golden Age
KATHRYN JAYASURIYA
Chapter 22--Yentl, Barbra Streisand, and Music of the Mind
PAUL LAIRD
VI Musical Renaissance, Musical Reflexivity
Chapter 23--Theatricality, Artifice, and Affective Space in the Works of Baz Luhrmann
ROBYNN J. STILWELL
Chapter 24--Musical Television: Smash, the Backstager, and the Broadway Musical on TV
JANE FEUER
Chapter 25--The Virtuosic Camera: Nostalgia, Technology, and the Contemporary Hollywood Musical
HANNAH LEWIS
Chapter 26--P.T. Barnum Reinvented for the Twenty-First Century
JAMES LEVE
