Dying swans and madmen : ballet, the body, and narrative cinema / / Adrienne L. McLean.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 304 p. :; ill. |
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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.