Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical (New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media) - Image 1

£75.84

Bloomsbury Academic Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical (New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media)

Name: Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical (New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media)
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Price: 75.84 GBP
Availability: InStock

Direction & Production

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£76 today · previous high £76 · all-time low £76

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 70 days • 70 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 70 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £76 (70 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £76 - £76

Price levels: 1 different prices over 70 days

Description

Busby Berkeley’s big-production numbers are emblematic of the Hollywood dream factory. Exploring the tensions between escapism and ideological over-coding in the Warner Bros. musical, this book tracks the ways in which Berkeley created spectacles that are both critical and complacent in relation to the society that produced and received them. Berkeley carried into his images of utopia the assembly plant, the misogyny, the fascism and racism of his day, but his collaboration with the filmmakers (Enright, Bacon and LeRoy) into whose narratives his numbers were spliced likewise involved taking care to draw a line between spectacle and the everyday. The book makes the case that the Warner Bros. musical, with its attention to the specificity and containment of the aesthetic dimension, has corrective lessons to impart for the aestheticized politics not only of the 1930s, but also of the current age.

Product Specifications

Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
Format: hardcover
ASIN: B0D7BSC6MY
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > Production & Technology > Direction & Production
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 February 2025
Listed Since: 18 June 2024

Barcode

No barcode data available

Bloomsbury Academic Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros.: Ideology and Utopia in the Hollywood Musical (New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale

When Warners Brought Broadway to Hollywood, 1923-1939 (Palgrave Studies in Screen Industries and Performance)

The Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical

Movie Musicals on Record: A Directory of Recordings of Motion Picture Musicals, 1927-1987 (Discographies: Association for Recorded Sound Collections Discographic Reference)

Art, Glitter, and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America: 100 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera)

Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment (Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera)

Songwriters of the American Musical Theatre: A Style Guide for Singers

Musical Theatre: A History

Popular Musical Theatre in London and Berlin: 1890 to 1939

The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals

Cultural Identity in British Musical Theatre, 1890–1939: Knowing One’s Place (Palgrave Studies in British Musical Theatre)

Routledge 20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical (Routledge Music Companions)

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical (Routledge Music Companions)

The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre: 1943-1965

West Side Story: Cultural Perspectives on an American Musical

The Business of American Theatre

Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets: 173 (Eastman Studies in Music)

Hamilton Broadway Puzzle Book - Trivia and Activity Games

The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals

Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater (Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present)

Victorian Classical Burlesques: A Critical Anthology (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception)

The Complete Book of 1980s Broadway Musicals