Douglas Pye is Senior Visting Research Fellow for Film, Theatre and TV at the University of Reading, UK. His works include Style and Meaning (2005) and The Movie Book of the Western (1996).

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Afrita Hanem, Henri Barakat, 1949.- An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli, 1951.- Anchors Aweigh, George Sidney, 1945.- Ansiedad, Miguel Zacarias, 1953.- Applause, Rouben Mamoulian, 1929.- The Band Wagon, Vincente Minnelli, 1953.- Cabaret, Bob Fosse, 1972.- Cabin in the Sky, Vincente Minnelli, 1943.- Calamity Jane, David Butler, 1953.- Car Wash, Michael Schultz, 1976.- Carmen Jones, Otto Preminger, 1954.- Carousel, Henry King, 1956.- Cavalcade, Frank Lloyd, 1933.- Chicago, Rob Marshall, 2002.- Come On George!, Anthony Kimmins, 1939.- Cover Girl, Charles Vidor, 1944.- Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier, 2000.- Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, Jacques Demy, 1967.- Dil se..., Mani Ratnam, 1998.- Die Dreigroschenoper, G.W. Pabst, 1931.- Easter Parade, Charles Walters, 1948.- Evergreen, Victor Saville, 1934.- Flying Down to Rio, Thornton Freeland, 1933.- Footlight Parade, Lloyd Bacon, 1933.- Footloose, Herbert Ross, 1984.- 42nd Street, Lloyd Bacon, 1933.- Funny Face, Stanley Donen, 1957.- Funny Girl, William Wyler, 1968.- The Gay Divorcee, Mark Sandrich, 1934.- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks, 1953.- The Girl Can't Help It, Frank Tashlin, 1956.- Gold Diggers of 1933, Mervyn LeRoy, 1933.- Golden Eighties, Chantal Akerman, 1986.- Grease, Randal Kleiser, 1978.- Guys and Dolls, Joseph L Mankiewicz, 1955.- Hallelujah!, King Vidor, 1929.- A Hard Day's Night, Richard Lester, 1964.- The Harder they Come, Perry Henzell, 1972.- High School Musical, Kenny Ortega, 2006.- Holiday Inn, Mark Sandrich, 1942.- 8 femmes, François Ozon, 2002.- It's Always Fair Weather, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1955.- Jailhouse Rock, Richard Thorpe, 1957.- Janken musume, Sugie Toshio, 1955.- The Jazz Singer, Alan Crosland, 1927.- Kiss Me Kate, George Sidney, 1953.- Der Kongress tanzt, Erik Charel, 1931.- Little Shop of Horrors, Frank Oz, 1986.- The Littlest Rebel, David Butler, 1935.- Love Me or Leave Me, Charles Vidor, 1955.- Love Me Tonight, Rouben Mamoulian, 1932.- The Love Parade, Ernst Lubitsch, 1929.- Mary Poppins, Robert Stevenson, 1964.- Meet Me in St Louis, Vincente Minnelli, 1944.- The Merry Widow, Ernst Lubitsch, 1934.- Le Million, René Clair, 1931.- Moulin Rouge!, Baz Lurhman, 2001.- The Music Man, Morton DaCosta, 1962.- Nashville, Robert Altman, 1975.- Naughty Marietta, Robert Z Leonard/W S van Dyke, 1935.- New York, New York, Martin Scorsese, 1977.- Oklahoma!, Fred Zinnemann, 1955.- Oliver!, Carol Reed, 1968.- One from the Heart, Francis Ford Coppola, 1982.- One Hour with You, Ernst Lubitsch/George Cukor, 1932.- 100 Men and a Girl, Henry Koster, 1937.- On the Town, Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1949.- Opera Jawa, Garin Nugroho, 2006.- Original Cast Album: Company, D. A. Pennebaker, 1970.- The Pajama Game, George Abbott/Stanley Donen, 1957.- Pakeezah, Kamal Amrohi, 1972.- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, Jacques Demy, 1964.- Pas sur la bouche, Alain Resnais, 2003.- The Pirate, Vincente Minnelli, 1948.- Pyaasa, Guru Dutt, 1957.- The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman, 1975.- Saturday Night Fever, John Badham, 1977.- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Stanley Donen, 1954.- Sholay, Ramesh Sippy, 1975.- Show Boat, James