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Aside from cataloguing, describing, and closely reading the plethora of films that comprise the group with which she is concerned, McLean surfaces interesting theoretical issues concerning the genre. This is a unique and original project. -- Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh --Lucy Fischer, University of Pittsburgh
Outstanding Academic Title of 2008. -- Choice --Choice
This is a superb and wonderfully readable work, a true combination to the fields of both cinema studies and dance. -- Cineaste --Cineaste
Outstanding Academic Title of 2008. -- Choice --Choice
This is a superb and wonderfully readable work, a true combination to the fields of both cinema studies and dance. -- Cineaste --Cineaste
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From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In "Dying Swans and Madmen", Adrienne L. McLean 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.Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet's popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies.
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The Red Shoes, Moira Shearer, United States, The Turning Point, Waterloo Bridge, Swan Lake, Specter of the Rose, The Unfinished Dance, New York, The Men, World War, Shall We Dance, Courtesy National Film Archive, The Mad Genius, Grand Hotel, The Band Wagon, Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly, Sadler's Wells, Fred Astaire, American Ballet Theatre, Lincoln Kirstein, Las Vegas, The Jealous Lover, Leslie Browne Browse Sample Pages:
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swans and madmen, disregard the plot, theatrical ballet, central ballet, ballet body, ballet film, channel for progress, ballet artists, indeed tough, ballet itself, male ballet dancer, film melodrama, ballet history, mad genius, ballet sequences Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Red Shoes, Moira Shearer, United States, The Turning Point, Waterloo Bridge, Swan Lake, Specter of the Rose, The Unfinished Dance, New York, The Men, World War, Shall We Dance, Courtesy National Film Archive, The Mad Genius, Grand Hotel, The Band Wagon, Cyd Charisse, Gene Kelly, Sadler's Wells, Fred Astaire, American Ballet Theatre, Lincoln Kirstein, Las Vegas, The Jealous Lover, Leslie Browne Browse Sample Pages:
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