Dance Me a Song: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly and the American Film Musical
Autor Beth Gennéen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 aug 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195382181
ISBN-10: 0195382188
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 305 halftones
Dimensiuni: 241 x 163 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0195382188
Pagini: 376
Ilustrații: 305 halftones
Dimensiuni: 241 x 163 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.78 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
[A] rich and readable love letter to the Golden Age movie musical
This entertaining examination of dance on screen and the singular pioneers during the Golden Age of movie musicals provides a fresh angle on this much-studied subject. ... Well researched and handsomely bound, this valuable and richly illustrated book includes a helpful time line of the accomplishments of Astaire, Balanchine, and Kelly and a lengthy bibliography for further study of musical films.
Genné's book will be a welcome volume for scholars interested in the aesthetics of film dance and popular culture, and, in particular, fans of Astaire, Balanchine, and Kelly will enjoy its many wonderful descriptive details.
impressive! ... She has spent many decades preparing this book and the amount of research is considerable ... Beth Genné is the only author I know who takes into account at the same level, in her analyses, the precision of the choreography, the personality of the performers, the important role of musical arrangers, and the contribution of directors.
What this book does is vitally important work in illuminating that uniquely American genre, the movie musical. It shows that the outlaw style of dance at the heart of it was created by freeform borrowings from both so-called highbrow end of the art and so-called lowbrow. In fact, Genné brings together not only styles but artists who don't usually meet in the same book -- like Balanchine and Astaire. With lucid and exuberant prose, she throws new light not only on the great dance-makers like Balanchine, Astaire, Kelly, but on their usually unsung but vital collaborators -- composers, arrangers, assistants, cameramen and a host of others who brought live dance to the big screen.
This entertaining examination of dance on screen and the singular pioneers during the Golden Age of movie musicals provides a fresh angle on this much-studied subject. ... Well researched and handsomely bound, this valuable and richly illustrated book includes a helpful time line of the accomplishments of Astaire, Balanchine, and Kelly and a lengthy bibliography for further study of musical films.
Genné's book will be a welcome volume for scholars interested in the aesthetics of film dance and popular culture, and, in particular, fans of Astaire, Balanchine, and Kelly will enjoy its many wonderful descriptive details.
impressive! ... She has spent many decades preparing this book and the amount of research is considerable ... Beth Genné is the only author I know who takes into account at the same level, in her analyses, the precision of the choreography, the personality of the performers, the important role of musical arrangers, and the contribution of directors.
What this book does is vitally important work in illuminating that uniquely American genre, the movie musical. It shows that the outlaw style of dance at the heart of it was created by freeform borrowings from both so-called highbrow end of the art and so-called lowbrow. In fact, Genné brings together not only styles but artists who don't usually meet in the same book -- like Balanchine and Astaire. With lucid and exuberant prose, she throws new light not only on the great dance-makers like Balanchine, Astaire, Kelly, but on their usually unsung but vital collaborators -- composers, arrangers, assistants, cameramen and a host of others who brought live dance to the big screen.
Notă biografică
Beth Genné is Professor of Dance History and Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the Dance Department and the Arts and Ideas concentration of the Residential College. She has written numerous book chapters on British ballet and dance in film (including Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli) and articles in such journals as Dance Research, Dance Chronicle, and Art Journal. She has contributed criticism and feature articles to The Dancing Times of London. She was Director of research for Balanchine's musical films for the Popular Balanchine Project of the George Balanchine Foundation. Her first book, The Making of a Choreographer, was on the early training and choreographic development of Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet.