Place for Us: Essay on the Broadway Musical

by D.A. Miller

Book Overview

It used to be a secret that, in its postwar heyday, the Broadway musical recruited a massive underground following of gay men. But though this once silent social fact currently spawns jokes that every sitcom viewer is presumed to be in on, it has not necessarily become better understood.

In Place for Us, D. A. Miller probes what all the jokes laugh off: the embarrassingly mutual affinity between a "general" cultural form and the despised...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674003888
• ISBN13: 9780674003880
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"