Singin' in the Rain (BFI Film Classics) - Softcover

Wollen, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844575144 ISBN 13: 9781844575145

Verlag: BFI Publishing, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

This new edition is published in the Film Classics 20th anniversary series of special editions, with a new foreword by Geoff Andrew, and a stunning new jacket design by Louise Weir

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Reseña del editor:

Sixty years after its release, Singin' in the Rain (1951) remains one of the best

loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public, it never

received its fair share of critical analysis. Gene Kelly's genius as a performer is

undeniable. Acknowledged less often is his innovatory contribution as director.

Peter Wollen's illuminating study of Singin' in the Rain does justice to this

complex film. In a brilliant shot-by-shot analysis of the famous title number,

he shows how skilfully Kelly weaves the dance and musical elements into the

narrative, successfully combining two distinctive traditions within American

Dance: tap and ballet.

At the time of the film's production, its scriptwriters Betty Comden and Adolph

Green, and indeed Kelly himself, were all under threat from McCarthyism.

Wollen describes how the fallout from blacklisting curtailed the careers of

many of those who worked on the film and argues convincingly that the film

represents the high point in their careers.

In his foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th

anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Geoff Andrew looks at the film's

legacy and celebrates the passion, lucidity and originality of Wollen's analysis.

Summing up its enduring appeal, Andrew writes: 'Singin' in the Rain isn't just a

musical, it's a movie about the movies.'

Biografía del autor:

PETER WOLLEN taught film at UCLA. He is the author of several books,

including Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, first published in 1969 and reprinted

in a new edition in 2012, and the co-writer (with Mark Peploe) of Michelangelo

Antonioni's The Passenger (Professione: Reporter) (1974).

 

GEOFF ANDREW is Head of Film Programme at BFI Southbank, and was

previously Film Editor of Time Out London. He is the author of two volumes in

the BFI Modern Classics series, The 'Three Colours' Trilogy (1998) and 10 (2005),

and of The Films of Nicholas Ray: The Poet of Nightfall (2004).

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• Verlag: BFI Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844575144
• ISBN 13: 9781844575145
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88