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Dying swans and madmen : ballet, the body, and narrative cinema / Adrienne L. McLean.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813542790
  • 9780813542799
  • 0813542804
  • 9780813542805
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.8 22
LOC classification:
  • GV1779 .M35 2008
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-290) and index.

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.

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