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Time of Our Lives : Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media SeriesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814336250
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Time of Our LivesDDC classification:
  • 791.43/72
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.D4965 -- T56 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Dirty Dancing in Context -- Introduction -- 1. Vestron Video and Dirty Dancing -- 2. Bringing Up Baby: Generic Hybridity in Dirty Dancing -- 3. Is Dirty Dancing a Musical, and Why Should It Matter? -- 4. White Enough -- 5. Dirty Dancing as Reagan-era Cinema and "Reaganite Entertainment" -- 6. Dressing and Undressing in Dirty Dancing: Consumption, Gender, and Visual Culture in the 1980s -- II. Questions of Reception -- Introduction -- 7. Dirty Dancing: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Neo-feminism -- 8. "There Are a Lot of Things About Me That Aren't What You Thought": The Politics of Dirty Dancing -- 9. "You Don't Own Me!": Dirty Dancing as Teenage Rite-of- Passage Film -- 10. Heteros and Hustlers: Straightness and Dirtiness in Dirty Dancing -- III. The Production of Nostalgia -- Introduction -- 11. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life": Romantic Nostalgia and the Early 1960s -- 12. "It's a Feeling -- a Heartbeat": Nostalgia, Music, and Affect in Dirty Dancing -- 13. Dancing in the Nostalgia Factory: Anachronistic Music in Dirty Dancing -- IV. Beyond the Film -- Introduction -- 14. A Dance Film with Legs: The Dirty Dancing Franchise -- 15. From Screen to Stage: Dirty Dancing Live -- 16. Dirty Dancing and Its Stage Jukebox Dansical Adaptation: The Dancing Male in a Teenage Female Fantasy of Desire and Sensuality -- Contributors -- Index -- BackCover.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Dirty Dancing in Context -- Introduction -- 1. Vestron Video and Dirty Dancing -- 2. Bringing Up Baby: Generic Hybridity in Dirty Dancing -- 3. Is Dirty Dancing a Musical, and Why Should It Matter? -- 4. White Enough -- 5. Dirty Dancing as Reagan-era Cinema and "Reaganite Entertainment" -- 6. Dressing and Undressing in Dirty Dancing: Consumption, Gender, and Visual Culture in the 1980s -- II. Questions of Reception -- Introduction -- 7. Dirty Dancing: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Neo-feminism -- 8. "There Are a Lot of Things About Me That Aren't What You Thought": The Politics of Dirty Dancing -- 9. "You Don't Own Me!": Dirty Dancing as Teenage Rite-of- Passage Film -- 10. Heteros and Hustlers: Straightness and Dirtiness in Dirty Dancing -- III. The Production of Nostalgia -- Introduction -- 11. "(I've Had) The Time of My Life": Romantic Nostalgia and the Early 1960s -- 12. "It's a Feeling -- a Heartbeat": Nostalgia, Music, and Affect in Dirty Dancing -- 13. Dancing in the Nostalgia Factory: Anachronistic Music in Dirty Dancing -- IV. Beyond the Film -- Introduction -- 14. A Dance Film with Legs: The Dirty Dancing Franchise -- 15. From Screen to Stage: Dirty Dancing Live -- 16. Dirty Dancing and Its Stage Jukebox Dansical Adaptation: The Dancing Male in a Teenage Female Fantasy of Desire and Sensuality -- Contributors -- Index -- BackCover.

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