Film and Culture Ser.: Showstoppers : Busby Berkeley and the Tradition of Spectacle by Martin Rubin (1993, Hardcover)

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Product Description : The first major analyses of Busby Berkeleys career on stage and screen Showstoppers emphasizes his relationship to a colorful somewhat disreputable tradition of American popular entertainment that of PT Barnum minstrel shows vaudeville Buffalo Bill Codys Wild West Show burlesque and the Ziegfeld Follies Rubin shows how Berkeley absorbed the declining theatrical tradition during his years as a Broadway dance director and then transferred it to the new genre of the early movie musical With lively prose and engaging photographs Showstoppers explores new ways of looking at Busby Berkeley at the musical genre and at individual film