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The time of our lives : Dirty dancing and popular culture /

A low-budget independent film made by a now-defunct video company in the late 1980s, Dirty Dancing became a sleeper hit with a huge, primarily young audience. Years on, the film has found millions of devoted fans around the world through TV, video, and DVD releases. This book brings together leading...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tzioumakis, Yannis (Editor ), Lincoln, Siân, 1974- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
Colección:Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Yannis Tzioumakis
  • Dirty Dancing in Context. Introduction / Yannis Tzioumakis ; Vestron Video and Dirty Dancing / Frederick Wasser ; Bringing Up Baby: Generic Hybridity in Dirty Dancing / Tamar Jeffers McDonald ; Is Dirty Dancing a Musical, and Why Should It Matter? / Jane Feuer ; White Enough / Richard Dyer ; Dirty Dancing as Reagan-era Cinema and "Reaganite Entertainment" / Cynthia Baron and Mark Bernard ; Dressing and Undressing in Dirty Dancing: Consumption, Gender and Visual Culture in the 1980s / Pamela Church Gibson
  • Questions of Reception. Introduction / Siân Lincoln ; Dirty Dancing: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Neo-feminism / Hilary Radner ; "There Are a lot of Things About Me That Aren't What You Thought": The Politics of Dirty Dancing / Oliver Gruner ; "You Don't Own Me!": Dirty Dancing as Teenage Rite of Passage Film / Siân Lincoln ; Heteros and Hustlers: Straightness and Dirtiness in Dirty Dancing / Gary Needham
  • The Production of Nostalgia. Introduction / Siân Lincoln ; "(I've Had) the Time of My Life:" Romantic Nostalgia and the Early 1960s / Bill Osgerby ; "It's a Feeling; a Heartbeat": Nostalgia, Music and Affect in Dirty Dancing / Claire Molloy ; Dancing in the Nostalgia Factory: Anachronistic Music in Dirty Dancing / Tim McNelis
  • Beyond the Film. Introduction / Yannis Tzioumakis ; A Dance Film with Legs: The Dirty Dancing Franchise / Amanda Howell ; From Screen to Stage: Dirty Dancing Live / Millie Taylor ; Dirty Dancing and Its Stage Jukebox Dansical Adaptation: The Dancing Male in a Teenage Female Fantasy of Desire and Sensuality / George Rodosthenous.