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Dying Swans and Madmen
Adrienne L. McLean
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Description for Dying Swans and Madmen
Paperback. Explores the pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the place that ballet occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, this book shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet that is associated with emotions. Num Pages: 320 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; ASDL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813542805
SKU
V9780813542805
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About Adrienne L. McLean
Adrienne L. McLean is a professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the author of numerous books, including Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (Rutgers University Press).
Reviews for Dying Swans and Madmen
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
Aside from cataloguing, describing, and closely reading the plethora of films that comprise the group with which ... Read more
Lucy Fischer
University of Pittsburgh
Aside from cataloguing, describing, and closely reading the plethora of films that comprise the group with which ... Read more