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  • Hollywood Song of the Year
    Thomas S Hischak
    Hollywood has been introducing new songs since the first talking movies in the late 1920s, and many of these songs have become part of America’s cultural heritage. Among the many new songs written for the screen every year, often one stands out above the others: 'the Hollywood song of the year,' as defined in this book. It may not be the most popular or the winner of movie awar...
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    56,56 €

  • Broadway Decoded
    Thomas S. Hischak
    A lively guide to fifty popular musicals from the comedy classics of the 1930s and 1940s to the frequently-produced darlings of modern theater. ...
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    35,08 €

  • The Abbott Touch
    Thomas Hischak
    This in-depth and original study examines 100 productions and analyses why George Abbott’s name became synonymous with the ’golden age’ of Broadway. What did Abbott contribute? How did he work? How did he innovate the industry? How did he survive so long? All of these inquiries, and more, lead to the most fundamental question of all: what exactly was the famous 'Abbott touch'? ...
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    39,22 €

  • Plays of Science & Invention
    Thomas Hischak
    Throughout the ages, men and women have gone beyond what was only previously observed to discover scientific breakthroughs and create new inventions. The 21 short plays in this collection seek to humanize science by looking at these advances from the point of view of both famous and unknown men and women. They go as far back as the ancient world and continue into the modern age...
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    20,08 €

  • Plays of the American Experience
    Thomas Hischak
    What brings the past alive better than stories performed by live actors? The 25 plays in this collection are short theatrical pieces that bring to life moments in American history from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. Most of the characters in these plays are not famous figures or even factual people. They are ordinary Americans who did not make history, but lived it....
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    19,96 €

  • American Plays and Musicals on Screen
    Thomas S. Hischak
    As the popularity of film grew and audiences demanded longer stories, Hollywood began borrowing plots as well as actors and directors from Broadway--some of these play-to-films were triumphs and others were inexplicable duds. This reference work is an annotated guide to American stage productions remade for film and television, with works ranging from late 19th-century Ameri...
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    73,57 €

  • Disney Voice Actors
    Thomas S. Hischak
    This biographical dictionary is devoted to the actors who provided voices for all the Disney animated theatrical shorts and features from the 1928 Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie to the 2010 feature film Tangled. More than 900 men, women, and child actors from more than 300 films are covered, with biographical information, individual career summaries, and descriptions ...
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    58,77 €

  • Enter the Playmakers
    Thomas S. Hischak / Thomas SHischak
    This companion volume to Enter the Players: New York Stage Actors in the 20th Century explores the careers of over three hundred directors and choreographers who have worked in New York City, giving biographical sketches and listing directing and choreography credits through the year 2005. ...
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    103,18 €

  • Through the Screen Door
    Thomas S Hischak / Thomas S. Hischak / Thomas SHischak
    This book is about the transition that musicals went through when they traveled from the stage to the screen. While the approach is critical, the style is readable and yields fascinating knowledge on the many things that did and didn’t happen as theatre and film have merged throughout the past century.Hischak’sanalysis covers productions from The Desert Song (1927), to Chicago ...
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    95,41 €

  • The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia
    Thomas S. Hischak / Thomas SHischak
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    37,93 €