| dc.description.abstract | Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen co-directed three films --On the Town (1949 release date), Singin' in the Rain (1952), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955). For a variety of reasons, the films are important to the study of film and in particular, the film musical. For example, the collaboration of two directors who both had subsequent careers as directors working alone, while not unheard of, is certainly a rarity. An auteurist
approach to both Kelly's and Donen's careers would have to take these films into consideration, of course. Beyond that, these three films permit the study of collaboration
in cinema in general and the study of the role of collaboration in the evolution of the musical in particular. | en_US |
