On Streisand: An Opinionated Guide

by Ethan Mordden

Book Overview

She said, "I became a singer because I couldn't get work as an actress," but Barbra Streisand not only became both but revolutionized the two professions. Her music transformed the smooth, uninflected style of the Frank Sinatras and Ella Fitzgeralds into an engine of dramatic vocalism in which each song is like a miniature three-act play. And Streisand's films changed forever the ideal of how a movie star chooses roles, going from musicals to dramas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190651768
• ISBN13: 9780190651763
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"