Music on Film Announces Two New Books, 'Amadeus' and 'Cabaret'

Music on Film series announces two new books: Amadeus and Cabaret, available March 2011.

 Amadeus by Ray Morton
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, Amadeus produced a soundtrack that propelled classical music to the top of the pop charts. But do you know the story behind the film? Author Ray Morton takes us behind the camera of Amadeus in then-Communist Czechoslovakia where the filmmakers were bedeviled by decrepit studios, unpredictable weather, and the Czech secret police. This book also highlights casting directors, who took a chance on two unknown actors to play the roles every star in the world was desperate to play, and the magnificent St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra.

Ray Morton (Glendale, CA) is a senior writer and columnist for Script magazine and the author of two previous books on film history: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg's Classic Film and King Kong: The Making of a Movie Icon from Fay Wray to Peter Jackson (both Applause Books). A graduate of New York University and the American Film Institute, Morton also works as a script analyst and consultant.

This book will be available March 2011 for $9.99. Paperback 128 pages color photo insert, ISBN: 978-0-87910-381-1

Cabaret by Stephen Tropiano
With eight Academy Awards, Cabaret is a landmark film that broke new cinematic ground by revolutionizing the Hollywood musical through its treatment of adult themes and art house sensibility. Stephen Tropiano interviewed, Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, and composer John Kander to bring readers an insider's look into the making of the film and the creative talent both in front of the camera and behind the scenes. He also takes readers through the history of Cabaret: Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories, John van Druten's I Am a Camera, and the Broadway musical incarnation of this divinely decadent film.

Stephen Tropiano (Los Angeles, CA) is the author of Obscene, Indecent, Immoral and Offensive: 100+ Years of Censored, Banned and Controversial Films (Limelight Editions) and The Prime Time Closet: A History of Gays and Lesbians on Television (Applause Books). He is also the current editor of the Journal of Film and Video. He is the founding director of the Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, where he teaches courses in film and television history, theory, and criticism.

This book will be available March 2011 for $9.99. Paperback 128 pages color photo insert, ISBN: 978-0-87910-382-8

Also available:
West Side Story by Barry Monush, ISBN: 978-0-87910-378-1
This is Spinal Tap by John Kenneth Muir, ISBN: 978-0-87910-377-4

And coming soon:
A Hard Day's Night by Ray Morton, ISBN: 978-0-87910-388-0, available Sept. 2011, and
GREASE by Stephen Tropiano, ISBN: 978-0-87910-389-7, available Sept. 2011

 

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