The perfect companion to cinema's most spectacular genre, "The Rough Guide to Film Musicals" reveals how an escapist entertainment became Hollywood's most ingenious art form. From such enduring classics as "Singin' In The Rain" and "West Side Story" to recent successes like "Evita" and "Chicago", this book reviews 50 essential musicals, including several forgotten gems. There are profiles of musical icons such as Fred Astaire, Judy Garland and George Gershwin and details of musicals from around the world. Complete with a ...
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The perfect companion to cinema's most spectacular genre, "The Rough Guide to Film Musicals" reveals how an escapist entertainment became Hollywood's most ingenious art form. From such enduring classics as "Singin' In The Rain" and "West Side Story" to recent successes like "Evita" and "Chicago", this book reviews 50 essential musicals, including several forgotten gems. There are profiles of musical icons such as Fred Astaire, Judy Garland and George Gershwin and details of musicals from around the world. Complete with a list of the best soundtracks, websites and books for further reading, this "Rough Guide" takes a behind the scenes look at this magical movie genre.
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If you're a fan of the classic Hollywood musical, this book provides an excellent outline of the genre. I stress the word, "Hollywood", however. There is a very short overview of musicals from other studios (in which British musicals are given only 4 pages -- the same space as the German output), but otherwise the book is strictly Hollywood. There are not that many stills and photographs either, although they are all attractively integrated with the text, not all grouped together at the back, as they are in other books like "Hollywood Movie Musicals". This book is superbly laid out and has many interesting sections, as well as the obligatory reviews of the "50 essentials" that range from "An American in Paris" and "The Band Wagon" through "Footlight Parade" and "The Merry Widow" to "Yolanda and the Thief".
