Dying swans and madmen : ballet, the body, and narrative cinema /
The author 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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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2008.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.