This screenplay of 42nd Street, along with Rocco Fumento's thorough and engrossing introduction, takes the reader behind the scenes to see how the Warners studio took a dismal novel and, working within severe financial constraints brought on by the Great Depression, turned out a smash musical hit.
42nd Street is a watershed film, one that resuscitated the Hollywood musical during troubled times. Yet 42nd Street wasn't merely a Depression tonic, its multiple plot line was half-comic, half-serious. It was a fast-paced, energetic, and the first musical not to shrink away from the fact that a Depression was going on. The film is an odd, and oddly successful, fusion of the real with the fantastic.
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Rocco Fumento , associate professor of English at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, is an especially qualified guide to this film. Both an aficionado and a teacher/scholar of film, he is also an accomplished creative writer.
Tino Balio, Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the author of United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars, United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry, and the editor of The American Film Industry as well as the 22 volume Wisconsin/Warner Bros. Screenplay series, all published by the University of Wisconsin Press. He directed the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research from 1966 to 1882.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Screenplay or the original novel?,
By Phil Shaw "music theater guy" (Las Vegas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 42nd street, (Hardcover)
Note that these books are not the novel by Bradford Ropes,but the screenplay made from that novel. The only offers that seem to be the original novel are the expensive ($300+) collector versions. My rating assumes that you want the screenplay. I thought I was getting the novel, but I won't give a bad review since I didn't check carefully.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
I must of missed the sign, wheres the real 42nd street!,
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This book is good for all ages. Moslty fo those who are fans of that genre.
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