Genne, Beth – Dance Me a Song

Description

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.

CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction: The Synergy of Sound and Moving Image
Part I. From Stage to Screen
1. No Limitations I: Astaire’s Outlaw Style and its New World Roots
2. No Limitations II: Astaire’s Roots in Social Dance, Ballet, and Other Forms
3. Old World Meets New World on Broadway: Balanchine, Astaire, Dukelsky, Gershwin, Minnelli, Rodgers and Hart, Josephine Baker
4. Ballet Meets Jazz in Hollywood: Balanchine and the Film Ballet
5. Dancing with the Camera, Dancing in the Street: Introducing Kelly and Donen
Part II. Film Dance Genres
6. Seduction Dances: Astaire, Kelly, and Song and Dance as Courtship
7. Freedom Incarnate: The Dancing Sailor as an Icon of American Values in World War II
8. Dancing in the Street: Courtship, Euphoria, and Despair
9. The Dream of Courtship: The Cinematic Dance Drama
10. Making Film Dance: The Through-Composed & Through-Choreographed Musical
11. Legacy
Appendix I. Timeline
Appendix II. Dance Genres