Orginally published in 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The fascinating moment of godspell: its cinematic adaptation in the shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass / Paul R. Laird. From novel to stage to screen: adapting Roberta / Geoffrey Block -- Getting real: stage musical vs. filmic realism in film adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret / Raymond Knapp -- The party's over: on the town, bells are ringing, and the problem of adapting postwar New York / Martha Shearer -- Into the woods from stage to screen / Mark Eden Horowitz -- Li'l Abner from comic strip to Hollywood / James Lovensheimer -- Fidelity vs. freedom in Milo Forman's film version of Hair / Andrew Buchman -- "An elegant legacy": the aborted cartoon adaptation of Finian's Rainbow / Danielle Birkett -- Little shop of horrors: breaking the rules all the way to the big (enormous, twelve-inch) screen / Jonas Westover -- The fascinating moment of godspell: its cinematic adaptation in the shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass / Paul R. Laird.
Series:
Oxford handbook of musical theatre screen adaptations
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