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1. • • The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and was selected for the National Film Registry in 1997.
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   Why is West Side Story important?

   • Yet, for criminologists like us, “West Side Story” is better known for its romanticized and racialized depictions of youth gangs. It is culturally significant largely because it helped source and spread some of the most powerful and pervasive myths about gangs.

   Op-Ed: 'West Side Story' spread powerful myths about gangs

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   Why is West Side Story called East Side Story?

   • We see it from the opening “Prologue,” when rival gangs, the Jets and the Sharks, stake out their territory. West Side Story was originally East Side Story. When they first conceived the show in 1949, Robbins, Bernstein and Laurents set their story on the east side of Manhattan, and gave it the working title East Side Story.

   The Surprising Backstory to West Side Story - WRTI

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   Was West Side Story a love story?

   • Love. In the end, West Side Story is a love story, and the prime example of how Bernstein loved the genre of musical theater, where he had his beginnings as a composer. Did you know that Bernstein first began writing music for theatrical productions when he was a teenage counselor at summer camp?

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   What is the message of West Side Story?

   • Conceived in 1949, West Side Story has a serious message that pleads for racial tolerance, delivered in unforgettable song and dance. People have been…

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   Can 'West Side Story' be changed?

   • “‘West Side Story’ has left a big cultural footprint, so there is value in reclaiming the story and depicting it as accurately as possible,” said technical producer Amanda Gonzalez-Piloto ’21, noting that the script for the HRDC production cannot be changed due to copyright restrictions.

   'West Side Story' explores racial, ethnic, political complications

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   Is West Side Story a racist movie?

   • “West Side Story” offers an ageless critique of racism and blocked opportunity in America. “Life is all right in America, if you’re all-white in America,” the Puerto Rican gang members sing. At the same time, the movie perpetuates the myth of interracial gang violence.

   Op-Ed: 'West Side Story' spread powerful myths about gangs

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3. www.folger.edu › blogs › shakespeare-and-beyondWest Side Story: 60 years as a cultural barometer | Folger ...

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   Oct 19, 2021 · The 1961 movie West Side Story, inspired by Romeo and Juliet, became a de facto representation of US Latinx in musicals for decades.

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   Nov 12, 2019 · More than 60 years after its Broadway debut, “West Side Story” remains a touchstone of modern American theater. A new Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club production opening this week at Farkas Hall is confronting the cultural missteps associated with the classic musical, turning an ambitious theatrical project into a complex educational ...

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6. www.latimes.com › opinion › storyOp-Ed: The real cultural significance of ‘West Side Story ...

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   Dec 10, 2021 · It is culturally significant largely because it helped source and spread some of the most powerful and pervasive myths about gangs. Myths that inform public opinion and public policy on...

7. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhy West Side Story is so timely now - BBC

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   Aug 24, 2018 · Instead, in 2018, as the world heads in ever more divisive directions, the tragic central premise of West Side Story – a work based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, which was itself based on ...

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8. artsandculture.google.com › story › an-out-and-outAn Out and Out Plea for Racial Tolerance: West Side Story ...

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   When West Side Story debuted on Broadway in September 1957, the show immediately gained fame for its bold artistic vision and unflinching engagement with social concerns of the day: racial...

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9. opentextbooks.uregina.ca › west-side-story-1961Difference, Power, and Discrimination in West Side Story

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   West Side Story is an important piece of film history not only because it is a musical classic with outstanding performances, but its cultural representation and use to display the issues going on during the 1960s.

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    Aug 23, 2018 · West Side Story was originally East Side Story. When they first conceived the show in 1949, Robbins, Bernstein and Laurents set their story on the east side of Manhattan, and gave it the working title East Side Story. They planned to stage the conflict between rival Catholic and Jewish groups.