Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain

by Peter Wollen
ISBN-10:
0851703518
ISBN-13:
9780851703510
Pub. Date:
12/28/1992
Publisher:
BFI Publishing
ISBN-10:
0851703518
ISBN-13:
9780851703510
Pub. Date:
12/28/1992
Publisher:
BFI Publishing
Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain

by Peter Wollen
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Overview

30 color and b&w illus.
Forty Years after it first appeared, Singin' in the Rain remains one of the best loved films ever made. Yet despite dazzling success with the public, it never received its fair share of praise from the critics. Gene Kelly's genius as a performer is there for all to see. What is less acknowledged is his innovatory contribution as director. Peter Wollen has finally done justice to this landmark film. In a brilliant shot-by-shot analysis of the famous title number, illustrated by specially produced frame stills, he shows how skillfully Kelly binds the dance and musical elements into the narrative, and how he successfully combines two distinctive traditions within American Dance, tap and ballet.
Scriptwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and indeed Kelly himself, were all under threat from the McCarthyism which menaced Hollywood at this time. The ethos in which the film was conceived could not long survive in the era of blacklisting. Wollen argues convincingly that Singin' in the Rain was the high point in the careers of those who worked on it.

Author Biography: Peter Wollen teaches film at the University of California, Los Angeles. His most recent feature film is Friendship's Death and for television Images of Atlantis. His latest critical collection is Raiding the Ice-box: Reflections on Twentieth Century Culture.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780851703510
Publisher: BFI Publishing
Publication date: 12/28/1992
Series: BFI Film Classics Series
Pages: 72
Product dimensions: 5.39(w) x 7.52(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

Foreword Geoff Andrew.- 'Singin' in the Rain'.- Notes.- Credits.- Bibliography.
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