{"id":5882,"date":"2012-07-22T13:40:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2012-07-22T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T17:40:21","slug":"singin-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/singin-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Singin’ in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of July 23, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News: <\/em><\/strong>SINGIN\u2019 IN THE RAIN<\/em> TURNS 60<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2019 in the Rain <\/em>reminds us of the problems <\/strong>many Hollywood studios and silent film actors faced during the advent of sound films, or \u201ctalkies,\u201d in the late 1920s. Want to learn more about this period in film history?Check out one of these titles.<\/p>\n

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The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Raymond Knapp. Princeton University Press, 2006
\nCall Number: ML2054 .K6 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Cinema\u2019s Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film -Style in France and the U.S.
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Charles O\u2019 Brien. Indiana University Press, 2005
\nCall Number: PN1995.7 .O27 2005 (Also available online via EBSCOhost<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Destabilizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity and Mayhem
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Kelly Kessler. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .M86 K48 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

Film It With Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Movie Musical
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Thomas Hischak. Greenwood Press, 2001
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .M86 H57 2001<\/a><\/p>\n

Film\u2019s Musical Moments
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell. Edinburgh University Press, 2006
\nCall Number: ML2075 .F49 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Edwin M. Bradley. McFarland, 2005
\nCall Number: PN1995 .B64 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

Hollywood\u2019s African American Films: The Transition to Sound
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Ryan Jay Friedman. Rutgers University Press, 2011
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .N4 F75 2011<\/a><\/p>\n

Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Steven Cohan. Duke University Press, 2005
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .M86 C59 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

The Musical: Race, Gender and Performance<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Susan Smith. Wallflower, 2005
\nCall Number: ML2054 .S65 2005<\/a><\/p>\n

The Musical: A Research and Information Guide
\n<\/em><\/strong>By William A. Everett. Routledge, 2011
\nCall Number: Available online via EBSCOhost<\/a><\/p>\n

Singin\u2019 in the Rain <\/em><\/strong>(DVD)
\nDirected by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Warner Home Video, 2002 (released 1952)
\nCall Number: PN1997 .S51332 2002<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/strong>By Peter Wollen. BFI Publishing, 1992
\nCall Number: PN1997 .S5133 W67 1992<\/a><\/p>\n

A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Richard Barrios. Oxford University Press, 1995
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .M86 B37 1995<\/a><\/p>\n

The Songs of Hollywood
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson. Oxford University Press, 2010
\nCall Number: ML2075 .F87 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sound of Musicals
\n<\/em><\/strong>Edited by Steven Cohan. BFI, 2010
\nCall Number: PN1995.9 .M86 S68 2010<\/a><\/p>\n

The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Scott Eyman. Simon & Schuster, 1997
\nCall Number: PN1995.7 .E96 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

The Talkies: American Cinema\u2019s Transition to Sound, 1926-1931
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Donald Crafton. Scribner, 1997
\nCall Number: PN1995.7 .C72 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical When It Went to Hollywood
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Thomas S. Hischak. Scarecrow Press, 2004
\nCall Number: ML1711 .H42 2004<\/a><\/p>\n

You Ain\u2019t Heard Nothin\u2019 Yet: The American Talking Film: History & Memory, 1927-1949
\n<\/em><\/strong>By Andrew Sarris. Oxford University Press, 1998
\nCall Number: PN1995.7 .S27 1998<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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