Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical

by Steven Cohan

Book Overview

With their lavish costumes and sets, ebullient song and dance numbers, and iconic movie stars, the musicals that mgm produced in the 1940s seem today to epitomize camp. Yet they were originally made... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822335956
• ISBN13: 9780822335955
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"