Week of July 23, 2012
In the News: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN TURNS 60
How can we get us through the rainy days of summer in Southeast Florida? Watch Gene Kelly kick up his heels in a 60-year-old Hollywood musical, of course. Singin’ in the Rain reminds us of the problems many Hollywood studios and silent film actors faced during the advent of sound films, or “talkies,” in the late 1920s. Want to learn more about this period in film history?Check out one of these titles.
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The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity
By Raymond Knapp. Princeton University Press, 2006
Call Number: ML2054 .K6 2006
Cinema’s Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film -Style in France and the U.S.
By Charles O’ Brien. Indiana University Press, 2005
Call Number: PN1995.7 .O27 2005 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)
Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem
By Kelly Kessler. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M86 K48 2010
Film It With Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Movie Musical
By Thomas Hischak. Greenwood Press, 2001
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M86 H57 2001
Film’s Musical Moments
Edited by Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell. Edinburgh University Press, 2006
Call Number: ML2075 .F49 2006
The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931
By Edwin M. Bradley. McFarland, 2005
Call Number: PN1995 .B64 2005
Hollywood’s African American Films: The Transition to Sound
By Ryan Jay Friedman. Rutgers University Press, 2011
Call Number: PN1995.9 .N4 F75 2011
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical
By Steven Cohan. Duke University Press, 2005
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M86 C59 2005
The Musical: Race, Gender and Performance
By Susan Smith. Wallflower, 2005
Call Number: ML2054 .S65 2005
The Musical: A Research and Information Guide
By William A. Everett. Routledge, 2011
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost
Singin’ in the Rain (DVD)
Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Warner Home Video, 2002 (released 1952)
Call Number: PN1997 .S51332 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)
Singin’ in the Rain
By Peter Wollen. BFI Publishing, 1992
Call Number: PN1997 .S5133 W67 1992
A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film
By Richard Barrios. Oxford University Press, 1995
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M86 B37 1995
The Songs of Hollywood
By Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson. Oxford University Press, 2010
Call Number: ML2075 .F87 2010
The Sound of Musicals
Edited by Steven Cohan. BFI, 2010
Call Number: PN1995.9 .M86 S68 2010
The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930
By Scott Eyman. Simon & Schuster, 1997
Call Number: PN1995.7 .E96 1997
The Talkies: American Cinema’s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
By Donald Crafton. Scribner, 1997
Call Number: PN1995.7 .C72 1997
Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When It Went to Hollywood
By Thomas S. Hischak. Scarecrow Press, 2004
Call Number: ML1711 .H42 2004
You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet: The American Talking Film: History & Memory, 1927-1949
By Andrew Sarris. Oxford University Press, 1998
Call Number: PN1995.7 .S27 1998