Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America

by Jake Johnson

Often dismissed as escapism, screen musicals of the 1960s in fact tapped into unspoken sadness about an America that was slipping away. Jake Johnson delves into film and television musicals of the era to examine their place in networks of grieving in America, for America, and about America.

The Golden Age of musical theater ended just as Elisabeth K bler-Ross's On Death and Dying debuted, and Johnson uses K bler-Ross's five stages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252046331
• ISBN13: 9780252046339
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.