Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Defining the Musical

Chapter 2: A Brief Account of the Long History of the Hollywood Musical

Chapter 3: Analyzing Musicals

Chapter 4: Stars of the Classic Musical

Chapter 5: Five Auteur Directors

Epilogue: La La Land

About the Author

Steven Cohan’s books include Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties, Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical, and Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies. He is Dean’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University.