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Lead book review

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

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

19 July 2014

9:00 AM

Dangerous Rhythm: Why Movie Musicals Matter Richard Barrios

OUP USA, pp.288, £22.99, ISBN: 9780199973842

Do movie musicals matter? Most readers, even those who love them, will embark on Richard Barrios’s short history of the genre with the thought: not much. They’ll very likely, I’m afraid, finish it holding much the same opinion. But not mattering much doesn’t prevent the best film musicals from being captivating.

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