The American Film Musical
Description
... a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical to date." Journal of Popular Films and TelevisionThe American Film Musical is a truly admirable book which is well worth making a song and dance about. It will immediately assume biblical authority for all who are seriously interested in the dream-factory's most lavish fantasies, and it may even come to stand as a landmark in our understanding of Hollywood as a whole.... Altman's book is thorough, well informed and warmly good-humored. It has brought the study of musical films out of th...
ISBN(s)
025320514X, 9780253205148
