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Showstoppers Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle

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ISBN-10: 0231080549

ISBN-13: 9780231080545

Edition: 1993

Authors: Martin Rubin, John Belton

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The first major analyses of Busby Berkeley's career on stage and screen. Showstoppersemphasizes his relationship to a colorful, somewhat disreputable tradition of American popular entertainment: that of P.T Barnum, minstrel shows, vaudeville, Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, burlesque, and the Ziegfeld Follies. Rubin shows how Berkeley absorbed the declining theatrical tradition during his years as a Broadway dance director and then transferred it to the new genre of the early movie musical. With lively prose and engaging photographs, Showstoppersexplores new ways of looking at Busby Berkeley, at the musical genre, and at individual film.
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Book details

List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/26/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 249
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Introduction: Berkeley and the Berkeleyesque
Berkeleyesque Traditions
Roots: From Barnum to Ziegfeld Integration and the Musical Aggregate Forms
The Black Crook Spectacle Forms Revue Forms
The Backstage Format Evolution of the Backstage Musical
An "Impossible" Genre Space and Discourse Berkeley vs. Sandrich
The Importance of Excess
The DeMillesque Spectacularization of the Camera
Berkeleyesque Theater
Berkeley on Broadway Apprenticeship: Operettas and Obscurity (1925-1927)
Breakthrough: A Connecticut Yankee (1927)
Spectacle: Earl Carroll Vanities of 1928 Fluidity: Good Boy (1928)
Broadway and "42nd Street"
Revue International (1930)
Broadway Before Berkeley Specific Antecedents Objectification of the Feminine Evolution of the Chorus Line
Berkeleysque Cinema
An Introductory Outline of Berkeley's Film Career Phases and Variables
Studio Collaborators Stylistic and Structural Contexts
Early Period (1930-1933)
The Early Film Musical and the Berkeleyesque
The Cantor Comedies
Whoopee! (1930)
Palmy Days (1931)
The Kid from Spain (1932)
Roman Scandals (1933)
Classic Warner Bros. Period (1933-1934)
Advantages of the Warner Bros. Musical 42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Deprived Women, Forgotten Men
Footlight Parade (1933)
Paradigm Parade
Dames (1934)
Later Warner Bros. Period (1935-1939)
A Genre in Transition
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
Hollywood Hotel (1937)
MGM Period (1939-1943)
From Warners to Metro
Broadway Serenade (1939)
The Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland "Trilogy"
Babes in Arms (1939)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Lady Be Good (1941)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
Girl Crazy (1943)
Fox Period (1943)
The Gang's All Here (1943) and the Fox Musical Garish Delirium Eccentric Editing A Musical Turned Inside Out "What If?"
Late Period (1949-1954, 1962)
Simplification
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Call Me Mister (1951)
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
Rose Marie (1954)
Jumbo (1962) and the Elephants' Graveyard
Conclusion