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

McLean, Adrienne L.

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

Adrienne L. McLean c2008 © Rutgers University Press

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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9780813542805 (paper)
9780813544670 (ebook)
9780813542799 (hardcover)

Subject

Film & Media Studies

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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
Introduction: Ballet in Tin Cans (page 1)
1 A Channel for Progress: Theatrical Dance, Popular Culture, and (The) American Ballet (page 34)
2 The Lot of a Ballerina Is Indeed Tough: Gender, Genre, and the Ballet Film through 1947, Part I (page 62)
3 The Man Was Mad-But a Genius!: Gender, Genre, and the Ballet Film through 1947, Part II (page 104)
4 If You Can Disregard the Plot: The Red Shoes in an American Context (page 133)
5 The Second Act Will Be Quite Different: Cinema, Culture, and Ballet in the 1950s (page 172)
6 Turning Points: Ballet and Its Bodies in the "Post-Studio" Era (page 215)
Notes (page 259)
Filmography (page 291)
Index (page 297)

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

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