Adrienne L McLean

Dying Swans and Madmen

Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780813542805
• ISBN-10: 0813542804
• Artikelnr.: 23440701

Autorenporträt

Adrienne L. McLean is a professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of numerous books, including Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : ballet in tin cans
A channel for progress : theatrical dance, popular culture, and (the)
American Ballet
Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 1, the life of a
ballerina is indeed tough
Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 2, the man was mad
but a genius!
If you can disregard the plot : the red shoes in an American context
The second act will be quite different : cinema, culture, and ballet in the
1950s
Turning points :
Ballet and its bodies in the "post-studio" era