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The Sound of Music

By Caryl Flinn
Series: BFI Film Classics
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Fifty years on from its release, The Sound of Music remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Caryl Flinn explores the iconic musical numbers that lie at the heart of the film’s enduring popularity, tracing its origins, context within the 1960s, and its lasting global fanbase.
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A half-century after its release, The Sound of Music remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Foregrounding the film's iconic musical numbers as key to its global longevity and appeal, Caryl Flinn's fresh new study traces the film's prehistories, its place amongst the events of the 1960s, and its afterlife amongst fans.

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Fifty years after its release, The Sound of Music (1965) remains the most profitable and recognisable film musical ever made. Quickly consolidating its cultural authority, the Hollywood film soon eclipsed the German film and Broadway musical that preceded it to become one of the most popular cultural reference points of the twenty-first century.

In this fresh exploration, Caryl Flinn foregrounds the film's iconic musical numbers, arguing for their central role in the film's longevity and mass appeal. Stressing the unique emotional bond audiences establish with The Sound of Music, Flinn traces the film's prehistories, its place amongst the tumultuous political, social and cultural events of the 1960s, and its spirited afterlife among fans around the world.

Series: BFI Film Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781844574742

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 June 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: BFI Publishing

Illustration: 57 colour photos

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 134.0mm

Height: 192.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Caryl Flinn Non-Fiction Series: BFI Film Classics

About the Author

Caryl Flinn is Professor of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman, The New German Cinema: Music, History and the Matter of Style and Strains of Utopia: Nostalgia, Gender, and Hollywood Film Music and co-editor of Music and Cinema.

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