Dying swans and madmen
Subtitle: ballet, the body, and narrative cinema
By: Adrienne L. McLean.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780813542799; 9780813542805
Subjects: Ballet in motion pictures, television, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-290), filmography (p. 291-296), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : ballet in tin cans; title: A channel for progress : theatrical dance, popular culture, and (the) American Ballet; title: Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 1, the life of a ballerina is indeed tough; title: Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 2, the man was mad; title: but a genius!; title: If you can disregard the plot : the red shoes in an American context; title: The second act will be quite different : cinema, culture, and ballet in the 1950s; title: Turning points :; title: Ballet and its bodies in the "post-studio" era.