Through the Screen Door

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.<B>Hischak's</B>analysis covers productions from <I>The Desert Song</I> (1927) to <I>Chicago</I> (2002).