Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation

An Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, Volume 3

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Edited by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Musicals

Keywords

musicals, Broadway, adaptation, stars

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Collection

Oxford Handbooks

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 400 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-0-19-766325-7

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Book Presentation:
Oxford Handbooks • First wide-ranging exploration of stage-to-screen adaptations of musicals, now available in shorter form for individual readers and courses
• Includes new archival information on films like Funny Girl and Anything Goes
• Presents new insights on how audience demographics and copyright affected how film musicals were rewritten for their 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. The opportunity to synchronize moving pictures with a soundtrack suited the musical in particular, since the heightened experience of song and dance drew attention to the novelty of the technological development. Until the near-collapse of the genre in the 1960s, the film musical enjoyed around thirty years of development, as landmarks such as The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Singin' in the Rain, and Gigi showed the exciting possibilities of putting musicals on the silver screen.

The final of three volumes, Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation: An Oxford Handbook traces how stardom and technology has affected the evolution of the genre of the stage-to-screen musical. Many chapters examine specific screen adaptations in depth, with case studies on the screen versions of Broadway favorites Carousel and Brigadoon, while others deal with broad issues such as how music rights affected how studios approached screen adaptations. Together, the chapters incite lively debates about the process of adapting Broadway for the big screen and provide models for future studies.

Volume I: The Politics of the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation
Volume II: Race, Sexuality, and Gender and the Musical Screen Adaptation
Volume III: Stars, Studios, and the Musical Theatre Screen Adaptation

About the Author:
Edited by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, Reader in Musicology, University of Sheffield Dominic Broomfield-McHugh is Reader in Musicology at the University of Sheffield. His publications include Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (2012), Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters (2014), The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner (2018) and Adapting The Wizard of Oz: From Baum to MGM and Beyond (2018).

See the publisher website: Oxford University Press