Format:
xv, 355 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780195382181
Content:
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. Dance Me a Song traces the history of famous Hollywood collaborations as the palimpsest of dance, film, and musical techniques were developed over time. Author Beth Genne draws on the most well-known and influential musical dances of the first half of the century, from the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' series in the thirties (Top Hat, Swing Time, Shall We Dance, and others), through the MGM film dances created and directed by Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, and again Astaire, whose career continued at MGM in the forties and fifties (Yolanda and The Thief, The Pirate, On the Town, Singin' in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Bandwagon). George Balanchine, she argues, also plays an important part in this story, from his until now unrecognized collaborations with Vernon Duke and Vincente Minnelli to develop the "jazz ballet" form on Broadway (The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 and his choreography for On Your Toes, 1936), to the 1939 film version of On Your Toes and the dance sequences he directed with Greg Toland for the Hollywood movie The Goldwyn Follies (1938). Busby Berkeley, whose moving camera techniques according to Gene Kelly "broke down the proscenium frame of the stage" for American dancers, forms a key part of the picture, as do early experimental French directors like Rene Clair and European immigrants to Hollywood Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian. Dance Me a Song provides lively and necessary scholarship for all dance enthusiasts.
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: the choreographer-director and the synergy of music and moving image -- From stage to screen -- Film-dance genres -- Making film dance -- Appendix: timeline -- Notes -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, PDF ISBN 9780199700332
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 9780190614170
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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Musicology
Keywords:
Astaire, Fred 1899-1987
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Balanchine, George 1904-1983
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Kelly, Gene 1912-1996
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Filmmusical
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Tanz
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Choreografie
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