(Free download) Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle
• Martin Rubin •
| #1893060 in Books | 1993-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.38 x.97 x10.26l,1.75 | File Name: 0231080549 | 249 pages
||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| A Busby Berkeley Spectacular!|By A Customer|The "Berkeleyesque" dance number is one that "depends on sheer spectacle, on the deployment of hordes of chorus dancers in a grandiose setting." Ever since I became aware of Busby Berkeley's spectacular musical productions during a film history course in college 20 years ago, I've longed for a comprehensive look at his films and c||Impressive and admirable. . . ."Showstoppers" is film scholarship and analysis of a very high order.|From the Back Cover|The name Busby Berkeley, creator of the dances for films such as 42nd Street, Babes in Arms, and Mil
The first major analyses of Busby Berkeley's career on stage and screen. Showstoppers emphasizes his relationship to a colorful, somewhat disreputable tradition of American popular entertainment: that of P.T Barnum, minstrel shows, vaudeville, Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, burlesque, and the Ziegfeld Follies. Rubin shows how Berkeley absorbed the declining theatrical tradition during his years as a Broadway dance director and then transferred it to the new ...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Showstoppers: Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle | Martin Rubin. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
