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By Martha Shearer

ISBN-10: 1137569360

ISBN-13: 9781137569363

In studying the connection among the outstanding, iconic and colourful manhattan of the musical and the off-screen background and geography of the genuine city—this e-book explores how the town formed the style and both how the style formed representations of the town. Shearer argues that whereas the musical was once for a few years a first-rate automobile for the idealization of city density, the transformation big apple underwent after global battle II constituted an important problem to its illustration. together with research of 42nd Street, Swing Time, Cover Girl, On the Town, The Band Wagon, Guys and Dolls, West part Story and lots of different vintage and little-known musicals—this e-book is an leading edge research of the connection among cinema and concrete space.

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