Article: Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical.(Book review)

Article: Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, ...
The Virginia Quarterly Review;  April 1, 2006 ;     544 words ...GENERAL NONFICTION Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value ... Entertainment! and its sequels, incongruous Entertainment is an equally serviceable ... critique of camp in the MGM musical. For as "entertainment ...

Article: Legendary MGM Musical Comedy Star Betty Garrett ...
PR Newswire;  September 22, 1998 ;     617 words ... ... Garrett, one of the brightest stars of the golden age of MGM musical comedies, is available for advance interviews Oct. 5-7 ... Frank Sinatra and threw him over her shoulder in the 1949 MGM musical "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." ("It was easy. He only ...

Article: Champion of the Birkshires The MGM musical star now ...
The Boston Globe;  September 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...STOCKBRIDGE -- Mention Marge Champion to anyone who grew up in the 1950s, and you will get a broad smile. Marge Champion and her husband, Gower, danced their way through seven musical films and established one of the great dance partnerships in Hollywood history. The best of their films was

Article: 1925 SILENT FILM MUCH DIFFERENT THAN CLASSIC 1939 MGM ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  June 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Debra J. Groom Staff writer No flying monkeys. No Munchkins. There weren't even any witches, good or bad. The scarecrow didn't seek a brain, the tin man didn't yearn for a heart and the cowardly lion wasn't looking for courage. And Dorothy never uttered those famous words "there's no place

Article: Media received.
Afterimage;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... University of Minnesota Press/395 pp./$77.95 (hb), $25.95 (sb). Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical, by Steven Cohan. Duke University Press/368 pp./$23.95 (sb). Infra-mince ...

Article: Books of critical interest.(Recommended readings)
Journal of the History of Sexuality;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Press, 2005. Pp. 264. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Cohan, Steven. Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 384. $84.95 (cloth ...

Article: Russia's early film revival.(FAMILY TIMES)(FROM THE VAULTS)
The Washington Times;  May 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... consequence of the decline of communism in Eastern Europe, East Side Story made a persuasive case for the incongruous entertainment value of these song-and-dance period pieces. I assumed it would be only a matter of time before some ...