Dying Swans and Madmen : Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema /
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....
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2008]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- 1. A Channel for Progress
- 2. The Lot of a Ballerina Is Indeed Tough
- 3. The Man Was Mad-But a Genius!
- 4. If You Can Disregard the Plot
- 5. The Second Act Will Be Quite Different
- 6. Turning Points
- NOTES
- FILMOGRAPHY
- INDEX