100 film musicals / Jim Hillier & Douglas Pye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillier, Jim, author.

Pye, Douglas, author.

Series:

BFI screen guides.

Screen Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musical films.

Film & Media.

British Film Institute.

Local Subjects:

Film & Media.

British Film Institute.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

One hundred film musicals

Hundred film musicals

Place of Publication:

London : British Film Institute : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2011.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Afrita Hanem, Henri Barakat, 1949

An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli, 1951

Anchors Aweigh, George Sidney, 1945

Ansiedad, Miguel Zacarias, 1953

Applause, Rouben Mamoulian, 1929

The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli, 1953

Cabaret, Bob Fosse, 1972

Cabin in the Sky, Vincente Minnelli, 1943

Calamity Jane, David Butler, 1953

Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976

Carmen Jones, Otto Preminger, 1954

Carousel, Henry King, 1956

Cavalcade, Frank Lloyd, 1933

Chicago, Rob Marshall, 2002

Come on George!, Anthony Kimmins, 1939

Cover Girl, Charles Vidor, 1944

Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier, 2000

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Jacques Demy, 1967

Dil se ..., Mani Ratnam, 1998

Die Dreigroschenoper, G. W. Pabst, 1931

Easter Parade, Charles Walters, 1948

Evergreen, Victor Saville, 1934

Flying Down to Rio, Thornton Freeland, 1933

Footlight Parade, Lloyd Bacon, 1933

Footloose, Herbert Ross, 1984

42nd Street, Lloyd Bacon, 1933

Funny Face, Stanley Donen, 1957

Funny Girl, William Wyler, 1968

The Gay Divorcee, Mark Sandrich, 1934

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks, 1953

The Girl Can't Help It, Frank Tashlin, 1956

Gold Diggers of 1933, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933

Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1986

Grease, Randal Kleiser, 1978

Guys and Dolls, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955

Hallelujah!, King Vidor, 1929

A Hard Day's Night, Richard Lester, 1964

The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1972

High School Musical, Kenny Ortega, 2006

Holiday Inn, Mark Sandrich, 1942

8 femmes, François Ozon, 2002

It's Always Fair Weather, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1955

Jailhouse Rock, Richard Thorpe, 1957

Janken musume, Sugie Toshio, 1955

The Jazz Singer, Alan Crosland, 1927.

Kiss Me Kate, George Sidney, 1953

Der Kongress tanzt, Erik Charell, 1931

Little Shop of Horrors, Frank Oz, 1986

The Littlest Rebel, David Butler, 1935

Love Me or Leave Me, Charles Vidor, 1955

Love Me Tonight, Rouben Mamoulian, 1932

The Love Parade, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929

Mary Poppins, Robert Stevenson, 1964

Meet Me in St. Louis, Vincente Minnelli, 1944

The Merry Widow, Ernst Lubitsch, 1934

Le Million, René Clair, 1931

Moulin Rouge!, Baz Luhrmann, 2001

The Music Man, Morton DaCosta, 1962

Nashville, Robert Altman, 1975

Naughty Marietta, Robert Z. Leonard/W. S. van Dyke, 1935

New York, New York, Martin Scorsese, 1977

Oklahoma!, Fred Zinnemann, 1955

Oliver!, Carol Reed, 1968

On the Town, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1949

One from the Heart, Francis Ford Coppola, 1982

One Hour with You, Ernst Lubitsch/George Cukor, 1932

100 Men and a Girl, Henry Koster, 1937

Opera Jawa, Garin Nugroho, 2006

Original Cast Album: Company, D. A. Pennebaker, 1970

The Pajama Game, George Abbott/Stanley Donen, 1957

Pakeezah, Kamal Amrohi, 1972

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964

Pas sur la bouche, Alain Resnais, 2003

The Pirate, Vincente Minnelli, 1948

Pyaasa, Guru Dutt, 1957

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman, 1975

Saturday Night Fever, John Badham, 1977

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Stanley Donen, 1954

Sholay, Ramesh Sippy, 1975

Show Boat, James Whale, 1936

Shree 420, Raj Kapoor, 1955

Silk Stockings, Rouben Mamoulian, 1957

Sing as We Go, Basil Dean, 1934

Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1952

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, David Hand, 1937

The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, 1965

A Star Is Born, George Cukor, 1954

Stormy Weather, Andrew L. Stone, 1943

Summer Holiday, Rouben Mamoulian, 1948.

Swing Time, George Stevens, 1936

Top Hat, Mark Sandrich, 1935

True Stories, David Byrne, 1986

Viktor und Viktoria, Reinhold Schünzel, 1933

Volga-Volga, Grigori Aleksandrov, 1938

West Side Story, Robert Wise/Jerome Robbins, 1961

The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939

Yankee Doodle Dandy, Michael Curtiz, 1942

You and Me, Fritz Lang, 1938

Ziegfeld Follies, Vincente Minnelli et al., 1946

Zouzou, Marc Allégret, 1934

References

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 25 September 2020).

ISBN:

9781838710644

1838710647

9781838714048

1838714049

9781844575688

1844575683

OCLC:

965711502

Publisher Number:

205396