Product Description: This wide-ranging guide introduces (or reintroduces) readers to movie musicals past and present, enabling them to experience the development of this uniquely American art form―and discover films they'll love.• Shows how the genre developed over time, from the 1920s to the present• Shares fascinating insights about musicals with which the reader is already familiar• Offers information on many lesser-known musicals• Helps readers find film musicals that are similar to those they know and like• Introduces important performers, directors, and songwriters• Includes photographic stills from famous movie musical...read more

Uses an encyclopedic format to provide entries for American movie musicals and the people associated with them including performers, songwriters, directors, choreographers, producers, studios, and designers. (view table of contents)