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Why movie musicals matter – to this author anyway

A review of Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter, by Richard Barrios, whose commitment to musical cinema you can’t knock, but whose prose style you should

‘There is nothin’ like a dame’ — nice songs, shame about the lighting: Mitzi Gaynor in ‘South Pacific’, 1958 [Getty Images]
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  • Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter

    Richard Barrios

    OUP USA, pp. 288

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