Musical films
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Musical films
- When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about musical films.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088121
- info:lc/authorities/sh85088121
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85088121#concept
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Variants
- Film musicals
- Motion picture musicals
- Moving-pictures, Musical
- Musicals (Motion pictures)
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Moving-pictures, Musical
Sources
- found: Hennepin.
- found: Beaver, F. Dict. of film terms, 1983.
- found: Britannica Micro.
- found: LC database, Sept. 24, 1987 (musical film(s); Hollywood musical; movie musical; film musical; musical)
- found: The moving image genre-form guide, via WWW, Mar. 10, 2001 (Musical. Predominantly theatrical fiction work whose plot is structured around segments featuring combinations of music, song, and dance, including such various types as backstage, comedy, rock, and musical biographies. In the Hollywood context, musicals emerged with the coming of sound motion pictures, from roots in stage musicals and operettas, revues, and vaudeville.)
- notfound: Katz, E. Film encyc., 1979
LC Classification
- PN1995.9.M86
General Notes
- When subdivided by the appropriate geographic, topical and/or form subdivisions, this heading is used for works about musical films.
Change Notes
- 2001-03-10: new
- 2008-09-26: revised
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