Beth Genné

Gebundenes Buch

Dance Me a Song

Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly, and the American Film Musical

Beschreibung

Dance Me a Song explores how Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and others led to the rise of a distinctive dance style as a crowning achievement of twentieth-century dance and cinema.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9780195382181
• ISBN-10: 0195382188
• Artikelnr.: 47870613