Foreword / by Gregg Opelka
Learning guide : movie musicals and their stars
All-talking, all-singing, all-dancing, all-mixed-up : the beginning to 1939
The Greatest Generation : patriotism, family, and American values :1940s
Enter the Golden Age : cinemascope, technicolor, and the advent of television : 1950s
Social change : values, virtues, and validation : 1960s
Days not so clear : civil rights, the sexual revolution, and what to sing about : 1970s
Anything goes : fame and the Me Generation : 1980s
Downtrodden and misunderstood : boys, bodyguards, and ballroom dancing : 1990s
Something different : bizarre, macabre, retro : the twenty-first century.
