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Lady in the Dark
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Lady in the Dark

When Lady in the Dark opened on January 23, 1941, its many firsts immediately distinguished it as a new and unusual work. The curious directive to playwright Moss Hart to complete a play about psychoanalysis came from his own Freudian psychiatrist. For the first time since his brother George's death, Ira Gershwin returned to writing lyrics for the theater. And for émigré composer Kurt Weill, it was a crack at an opulent first-class production. Together Hart, Gershwin, and Weill (with a little help from the psychiatrist) produced one of the most innovative works in Broadway history. With a company of 101 and an astronomical budget, Lady in the Dark launched the career of a young nightclub p...

Father Knew Best
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Father Knew Best

The companion volume to "Mother Knew Best", this book offers a joyous celebration of fatherhood. Shedding light on the roles fathers have played in the formative years of famous people's lives, "Father Knew Best" offers 101 insightful quotations and stories from the fathers of such people as Oprah Winfrey, John Wayne, Michael Jordan and Mickey Mantle.

Superheroes Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Superheroes Beyond

Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, Naja Later, Cormac McGarry, Angela Ndalianis, Julian Novitz, Alexandra Ostrowski Schilling, Maria Lorena M. Santos, Jack Teiwes, and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed In recent years, superheroes on the page and screen have garnered increasing research and wider interest. Nonetheless, many works fall back on familiar examples before arriving at predictable conclusions. Superheroes Beyond moves superhero research beyond expected models. In this innovative collection, contributors unmask international cr...

Frequency Standards and Metrology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 679

Frequency Standards and Metrology

This book discusses the latest research ideas with application to frequency standards (e.g. optical clocks) and assesses ideas from previous symposia which have undergone critical analysis.

Grand Design
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

Grand Design

Covering a tumultuous period of the 1950s, this work explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains, the panic of the blacklist era, the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre, and the rise of television and Hollywood's response with widescreen spectacles.

The Shakespeare Trade
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

The Shakespeare Trade

"Hodgdon's work should be required reading for anyone concerned with Shakespeare's cultural capital at the end of the twentieth century."—South Atlantic Review

An Evening's Entertainment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

An Evening's Entertainment

On the age of silent movies

William Beaudine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

William Beaudine

"In this detailed biography, Marshall chronicles Beaudine's swift rise through the ranks, his triumph as one of the most successful directors of British comedies, accumulation and loss of personal fortunes, and prolific work in television. William Beaudine: From Silents to Television also corrects much misinformation that has been written about the director. With the most complete list of his directorial credits to date, this volume serves as the ultimate authority on Beaudine's life and career."--Jacket.

The Naked Truth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

The Naked Truth

From parents and teachers to politicians and policymakers, there is a din of voices participating in the debate over how young people are affected by violence, strong language, and explicit sexual activity in films. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) responded to this concern in 1968 when it introduced a classification and rating system based on the now well-known labels: “G”, “PG”, “PG-13”, “R”, and ”X”. For some, these simple tags are an efficient way to protect children from viewing undesirable content. But do the MPAA ratings actually protect children? In The Naked Truth, Kevin. S Sandler argues that the rating system does not protect children but instea...

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 958

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A dictionary of short entries on American musicals and their practitioners, including performers, composers, lyricists, producers, and choreographers