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WEST SIDE STORY – O CAPODOPERA CINEMATOGRAFICA
WEST SIDE STORY – A CINEMA MASTERPIECE

Author(s): Izabela Bostan
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Universitatea de Teatru si Film »I.L. Caragiale« (UNATC)
Keywords: West Side Story; Robert Wise; Jerome Robbins; Romeo&Juliet; musical masterpiece

Summary/Abstract: "West Side Story" directed by Robert Wise and with a choreography signed by Jerome Robbins was one of the musicals of the new American cinema movement, which offered something different from the music films full of extras, grandeur, glow that were not based on subject, actors or something other than music and dance. This film marks a new era of musical, with the proposal to accompany this kind of film by a specific dramatic narrative, a story that respects the classic scenario structures with hero and anti-hero, action motivation, hitting the climax of the story, the required sacrifice and an end different from the "light" one in usual musicals ...

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 99-116
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian
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