In 1941, Paramount releasedThere's Magic in Music, a film about a soprano who sings opera in burlesque and wins a scholarship to attend Interlochen. The movie's utopian view of art music, however, caused difficulties for the studio in regard to marketing, leading to a studio-wide debate over the film's title. Archival documents positionThere's Magic in Musicas a valuable case study for investigating the transitional period of musical film production between the Great Depression and the onset of World War II, particularly with respect to operatic musicals. Just prior to the United States’ entry into the war, Hollywood moved away from the escapist fantasy of 1930s cinema toward the realism that would mark the 1940s. To reboot fading interest in musicals, studios toyed with the formula of the backstage musical to focus more on dramatic narratives and star power.There's Magic in Musicthus serves as a lens through which we might examine changes both in musical film production and in notions of “good music” at the eve of World War II.

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从音乐的魔力到冷酷的金丝雀：在战前音乐电影中推广“好音乐”

1941年，派拉蒙上映音乐中有魔力, 一部关于一位女高音以滑稽戏演唱歌剧并获得奖学金去参加因特洛兴的电影。然而，这部电影对艺术音乐的乌托邦式观点给工作室带来了营销方面的困难，导致整个工作室对电影的片名进行了争论。档案文件位置音乐中有魔力作为一个有价值的案例研究，用于调查从大萧条到二战爆发之间音乐电影制作的过渡时期，特别是在歌剧音乐剧方面。就在美国参战之前，好莱坞从 1930 年代电影的逃避现实主义幻想转向标志着 1940 年代的现实主义。为了重新唤起人们对音乐剧的兴趣，工作室玩弄了后台音乐剧的模式，更多地关注戏剧性的叙事和明星力量。音乐中有魔力因此，我们可以通过它来审视二战前夕音乐电影制作和“好音乐”概念的变化。