Singin' in the Rain Term Paper

In the “Golden Age” of the studio system, musicals were popular fare. Stars were defined as much by their singing and dancing skills as they were by their acting skills, screen presence, and good looks. Though music has been a part of movies almost as long as sound itself, it took time before the movie musical developed into a mature genre. Perhaps the final step in the musical genres coming of age came with the advent of the integrated musical in which songs are linked to both narrative and character development, and in many cases function as dialogue. Singing in the Rain is an excellent example of an integrated musical. As we shall see sound motion pictures develops concurrently with the movie musical genre.
When the movies learned to talk, as it were, in the late 1920s, singing wasn’t far behind. Indeed, the first recognized sound motion picture was nothing more than a silent movie with songs. Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer, featuring the then popular singing star A...