What's entertainment? Recent writing on the musical

Authors :: Charles Wolfe
Source :: Quarterly Review of Film Studies. 10:143-152
Publication Year :: 1985
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 1985.
Abstract: Rick Altman, ed. Genre: The Musical. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981. 228 pp. $9.95 paper. Jane Feuer. The Hollywood Musical. Blooming‐ton, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1982. 131 pp. $7.95 paper. Clive Hirschhorn. The Hollywood Musical. New York: Crown, 1981. 456 pp. $17.95 cloth. Ted Sen nett. Hollywood Musicals. New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., 1981. 384 pp. $50.00 cloth. Ethan Mordden. The Hollywood Musical. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. 260 pp. $15.95 cloth. $8.95 paper.