The time of our lives : Dirty dancing and popular culture / edited by Yannis Tzioumakis and Sian Lincoln.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tzioumakis, Yannis.

Lincoln, Siân, 1974-

Series:

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Film criticism.

Dirty dancing (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A low-budget independent film made by a now defunct video company in the late 1980s, Dirty Dancing became a sleeper hit with a huge, primarily young audience. Even twenty-five years on, the film has found millions of devoted fans around the world through TV, video, and DVD releases. In The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture editors Yannis Tzioumakis and Siân Lincoln bring together leading scholars of film, media, music, culture, theater, dance, and sociology to examine for the first time the global cultural phenomenon of Dirty Dancing. Tzioumakis and Lincoln begin by assessing Dirty Dancing's cultural impact in the decades since its release and introduce contributors in four sections. Essays in "Dirty Dancing in Context" look at the film from several perspectives, including its production and distribution history, its blending of genres, its treatment of race, and its place in the political and visual culture of the 1980s. In "Questions of Reception, " contributors examine the many ways that the film has been received since its release, while those in "The Production of Nostalgia" focus on the film's often critiqued production of an idealized past. Finally, contributors in "Beyond the Film" examine the celebrated synergies that the film achieved in the "high concept" film environment of the 1980s, and the final two essays deal with the successful adaptation of the film for the stage. With the enormous cultural impact it has made over the years, Dirty Dancing offers many opportunities for thought-provoking analysis. Fans of the movie and students and scholars of cultural, performance, and film history will appreciate the insight in The Time of Our Lives.

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 1980's""; ""II. Questions of Reception""; ""Introduction""

""7. Dirty Dancing: Feminism, Post-feminism, 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 1960's""; ""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""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814336250

0814336256

OCLC:

847609585