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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The Wizard of Oz
1939, in 37 top lists Check -
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937, in 25 top lists Check -
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Grease
1978, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Sound of Music
1965, in 25 top lists Check -
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Mary Poppins
1964, in 15 top lists Check -
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Moulin Rouge!
2001, in 17 top lists Check -
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Singin' in the Rain
1952, in 37 top lists Check -
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Chicago
2002, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975, in 13 top lists Check -
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West Side Story
1961, in 22 top lists Check -
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Saturday Night Fever
1977, in 13 top lists Check -
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A Hard Day's Night
1964, in 18 top lists Check -
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Dancer in the Dark
2000, in 9 top lists Check -
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Cabaret
1972, in 24 top lists Check -
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Little Shop of Horrors
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
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High School Musical
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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Oliver!
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953, in 11 top lists Check -
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An American in Paris
1951, in 18 top lists Check -
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Footloose
1984, in 2 top lists Check -
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Meet Me in St. Louis
1944, in 15 top lists Check -
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
1954, in 8 top lists Check -
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Nashville
1975, in 21 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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Funny Face
1957, in 6 top lists Check -
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Top Hat
1935, in 14 top lists Check -
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Funny Girl
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
1942, in 12 top lists Check -
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Guys and Dolls
1955, in 7 top lists Check -
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A Star Is Born
1954, in 13 top lists Check -
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Swing Time
1936, in 13 top lists Check -
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42nd Street
1933, in 12 top lists Check -
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On the Town
1949, in 10 top lists Check -
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Oklahoma!
1955, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Jazz Singer
1927, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Music Man
1962, in 6 top lists Check -
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8 femmes
2002 — a.k.a. 8 Women, in 2 top lists Check -
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New York, New York
1977, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Band Wagon
1953, in 14 top lists Check -
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Gold Diggers of 1933
1933, in 11 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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Jailhouse Rock
1957, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sholay
1975 — a.k.a. Embers, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Harder They Come
1972, in 7 top lists Check -
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Show Boat
1936, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Gay Divorcee
1934, in 6 top lists Check -
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Holiday Inn
1942, in 1 top list Check -
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Footlight Parade
1933, in 5 top lists Check -
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Love Me Tonight
1932, in 11 top lists Check -
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Easter Parade
1948, in 1 top list Check
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