{"product_id":"the-musicals-of-cole-porter-broadway-hollywood-television-9781496856128","title":"The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television","description":"Cole Porter (1891-1964) remains one of America's most popular composer-songwriters, known for the many urbane, witty, romantic songs he wrote for stage musicals and Hollywood films. Porter was unique among his contemporaries for writing both the music and lyrics for his compositions. To this day, several of his numbers--\"Night and Day,\" \"I've Got You Under My Skin,\" \"You're the Top,\" and \"I Get a Kick Out of You,\" to name a few--endure as standards. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003e The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television\u003c\/i\u003e, Bernard F. Dick presents a critical study of Porter's Broadway and movie musicals, and his one foray into live television, \u003ci\u003eAladdin--\u003c\/i\u003ecovering the period from his first failure, \u003ci\u003eSee America First\u003c\/i\u003e (1916), to the moderately successful \u003ci\u003eSilk Stockings \u003c\/i\u003e(1955), which ended his Broadway career. Taking a chronological approach, interspersed with chapters on Porter's \"list songs\" that owe much to such operas as Mozart's \u003ci\u003eDon Giovanni\u003c\/i\u003e and Rossini's \u003ci\u003eThe Barber of Seville\u003c\/i\u003e; his love songs, often bittersweet and bleakly poignant; and, above all, his love of figurative language, Dick discusses in detail the various literary sources and cultural reference points that inspired the lyrics to Porter's numbers. The first volume of its kind exclusively dedicated to exploring the extensive body of work by this influential twentieth-century songwriter, \u003ci\u003eThe Musicals of Cole Porter \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling resource for readers interested in the craft of a great composer-lyricist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard F. Dick \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of communication and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThat Was Entertainment: The Golden Age of the MGM Musical\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Screen Is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe President's Ladies: Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eHollywood Madonna: Loretta Young\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eForever Mame: The Life of Rosalind Russell\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eClaudette Colbert: She Walked in Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51213097042194,"sku":"9781496856128","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c828bcb8-78f7-4e36-acd2-61015fa86cb6.jpg?v=1745359308","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-musicals-of-cole-porter-broadway-hollywood-television-9781496856128","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}