Tag: Musicals

The Great Movie Musicals A Viewer’s Guide to 168 Films That Really Sing


Free Download Don Tyler, "The Great Movie Musicals: A Viewer’s Guide to 168 Films That Really Sing"
English | ISBN: 0786443847 | 2010 | 423 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Beginning with The Jazz Singer in 1927 and ending with Sweeney Todd in 2007, this comprehensive critical history examines the greatest movie musicals of all time. Organized alphabetically, 168 films are analyzed on the basis of importance, entertainment value and musical presentation. Included are Broadway adaptations (West Side Story), screen originals (The Wizard of Oz), all-star revues (The King of Jazz), musical biopics (The Glenn Miller Story), "dance pictures (Fame) and animated features (Aladdin).

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Hollywood Musicals Nominated for Best Picture


Free Download Frederick G. Vogel, "Hollywood Musicals Nominated for Best Picture"
English | ISBN: 0786412909 | 2003 | 384 pages | PDF | 69 MB
Only one year after the presentation of the first Academy Awards on May 16, 1929, two musicals—The Broadway Melody and The Hollywood Revue—joined the select group of five films nominated for Best Picture of the 1929–1930 season. The Broadway Melody won the award for Best Picture, and since then, 37 additional musicals have received Best Picture nominations. Of those, nine have won the award.

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Manboobs A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake [Audiobook]


Free Download Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D5JWD2Q9 | 2024 | 7 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 221 MB
Author: Komail Aijazuddin
Narrator: Komail Aijazuddin

A blazing new talent’s hilarious memoir about coming of age and coming out in Pakistan, moving to America, looking for love, and falling in love with himself along the way. What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find happiness despite years of humiliation, physical danger, and a legion of Brooklyn hipsters who know you only as a queer from Whereveristan? How do you summon the courage to be yourself no matter where you are? Even as a young child in Lahore, Komail Aijazuddin knew he was different-no one else at his all-boys prep school was pirouetting off their desks, or being bullied for their "manboobs," or spontaneously bursting into songs from The Little Mermaid.

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Manboobs A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake


Free Download Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake by Komail Aijazuddin
English | August 13, 2024 | ISBN: 1419773844 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 0.9 MB
Manboobs is Komail Aijazuddin’s riotous yet intelligent memoir of searching for love, seamlessly blending humor, politics, pop culture, and the bravery required to be yourself. Aijazuddin confidently announces himself as a sharp new voice in humor with his moving, wickedly funny reexamination of the American Dream and our search for home.

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