The American musical and the performance of personal identity /
Raymond Knapp.
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
- 470 p. : ill.
Personal genres. The Viennese connection : Franz Lehár and American operetta (The merry widow (1907). Naughty Marietta (1910). Little Mary Sunshine (1959). A little night music (1973)) -- The movie musical (Singin' in the rain (film, 1952). Stormy weather (film, 1943) and Bamboozled (film, 2000). Meet me in St. Louis (film, 1944). Moulin Rouge (film, 2001) and Chicago (film, 2002)). HKBU Library Epilogue. Operatic ambitions and beyond (Candide (1956). Sweeney Todd (1979). Evita (1979)).
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Musicals--History and criticism.--United States Musicals--Social aspects--United States. Personality and culture. Motion pictures--History.--United States