100 Film Musicals (Paperback)

From the coming of sound to the 1960s, the musical was central to Hollywood production. Exhibiting - often in spectacular fashion - the remarkable resources of the Hollywood studios, musicals came to epitomise the very idea of 'light entertainment'. Films like "Top Hat" and "42nd Street, Meet Me in St. Louis" and "On the Town, Singin' in the Rain and Oklahoma , West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music" were hugely popular, yet were commonly regarded by cultural commentators as trivial and escapist. It was the 1970s before serious study of the Hollywood musical began to change critical attitudes and foster an interest in musical films produced in other cultures. Hollywood musicals have become less common, but the genre persists and both academic interest in and fond nostalgia for the musical shows no signs of abating. "100 Film Musicals" provides a stimulating overview of the genre's development, its major themes and the critical debates it has provoked. While centred on the dominant Hollywood tradition, "100 Film Musicals" includes films from countries that often tried to emulate the Hollywood style, like Britain and Germany, as well as from very different cultures like India, Egypt and Japan. Jim Hillier and Douglas Pye also discuss post-1960s films from many different sources which adapt and reflect on the conventions of the genre, including recent examples such as "Moulin Rouge " and "High School Musical, " demonstrating that the genre is still very much alive.

General

Imprint:	Bfi Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	BFI Screen Guides
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Douglas Pye • Jim Hillier
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-84457-378-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Musical theatre Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	1-84457-378-8
Barcode:	9781844573783

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