Dying swans and madmen ballet, the body, and narrative cinema /

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Main Author: McLean, Adrienne L.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
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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.