BFI's 100 Film Musicals
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"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."
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Applause
1929, in 4 top lists Check -
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Cabaret
1972, in 24 top lists Check -
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Car Wash
1976, in 2 top lists Check -
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Carmen Jones
1954, in 7 top lists Check -
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Carousel
1956, in 1 top list Check -
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Cavalcade
1933, in 4 top lists Check -
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Dancer in the Dark
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
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Les demoiselles de Rochefort
1967 — a.k.a. The Young Girls of Rochefort, in 12 top lists Check -
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Dil Se..
1998, in 3 top lists Check -
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Die 3 Groschen-Oper
1931 — a.k.a. The 3 Penny Opera, in 7 top lists Check -
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Footloose
1984, in 2 top lists Check -
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Funny Girl
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
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Gold Diggers of 1933
1933, in 11 top lists Check -
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Hallelujah
1929, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Harder They Come
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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High School Musical
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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Holiday Inn
1942, in 1 top list Check -
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It's Always Fair Weather
1955, in 3 top lists Check -
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Jailhouse Rock
1957, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Jazz Singer
1927, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Littlest Rebel
1935, in 1 top list Check -
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Love Me or Leave Me
1955, in 2 top lists Check -
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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944, in 15 top lists Check -
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Moulin Rouge!
2001, in 17 top lists Check -
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Nashville
1975, in 21 top lists Check -
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Naughty Marietta
1935, in 3 top lists Check -
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New York, New York
1977, in 5 top lists Check -
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Oliver!
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
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Pakeezah
1972 — a.k.a. Pure Heart, in 6 top lists Check -
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Les parapluies de Cherbourg
1964 — a.k.a. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, in 18 top lists Check -
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Pyaasa
1957, in 10 top lists Check -
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Saturday Night Fever
1977, in 13 top lists Check -
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954, in 8 top lists Check -
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Show Boat
1936, in 8 top lists Check -
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Shree 420
1955 — a.k.a. Mr. 420, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Sound of Music
1965, in 25 top lists Check -
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A Star Is Born
1954, in 13 top lists Check -
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West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942, in 12 top lists Check
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