The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical

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 DESIRÉE 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