Love Me Tonight
Published on 10. September 2024
176 pages
978-0-19-756620-6 (ISBN)
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In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, renowned author Geoffrey Block introduces scholars, students, and general readers to the remarkable musical film, Love Me Tonight (1932) from a accessible musicological perspective, giving readers of all stripes new ways to hear this classic film.
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Geoffrey Block is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Music History and Humanities at the University of Puget Sound. He is the series editor for Oxford's Broadway Legacies and has published widely on American musical theater and film. His previous titles include Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from ?Show Boat? to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber, The Richard Rodgers Reader, and A Fine Romance: Adapting Broadway to Hollywood in the Studio System Era.
Content
Chapter 1: Introducing the Major Players and Developing the Screenplay for a Fairy Tale Musical
Chapter 2: Songs by Rodgers and Hart
Chapter 3: Rodgers the Musical ?Auteur?: Instrumental Numbers, Leitmotivs, Borrowing, Allusions, and Underscoring
Chapter 4: Sex and Censorship
Chapter 5: The Reception of Love Me Tonight from Its Time to Ours
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