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Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
Stephen Lee Naish
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Description for Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
Paperback. It's time to take Dirty Dancing out of the corner and place it under the microscope. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything. In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unlock a film that has haunted him for decades, and argues that Dirty Dancing, the 1987 sleeper hit about a young middle-class girl who falls for a handsome working-class dance instructor, is actually about everything. The film is a union of history, politics, sixties and eighties culture, era-defining music, class, gender, and race, and of course features one of the ... Read more
Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything. In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unlock a film that has haunted him for decades, and argues that Dirty Dancing, the 1987 sleeper hit about a young middle-class girl who falls for a handsome working-class dance instructor, is actually about everything. The film is a union of history, politics, sixties and eighties culture, era-defining music, class, gender, and race, and of course features one of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Ropley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782799719
SKU
V9781782799719
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About Stephen Lee Naish
Stephen Lee Naish's writing explores film, politics, and popular culture. His essays have appeared in Candid Magazine, The Quietus, Empty Mirror, 3:AM, and The Hong Kong Review of Books. He is the author of the essay collection U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film (Zer0 Books) and the forthcoming book Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper ... Read more
Reviews for Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
This is a remarkable achievement. Using a single film as a case-study, it asks the reader to re-think their own relationship to cinema, calling into question the narratives, memories and assumptions we construct through and about popular culture. This unique and innovative analysis offers a great deal to any reader, from the film studies professor to the occasional cinema goer. ... Read more