Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of 20th century film production and continues to draw audiences today.
Steven Cohan's books include Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties, Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical, and Hollywood by Hollywood: The Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies. He is Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Syracuse University.
