Dying swans and madmen: ballet, the body, and narrative cinema

Introduction : ballet in tin cans

A channel for progress : theatrical dance, popular culture, and (the) American Ballet

Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 1, the life of a ballerina is indeed tough

Gender, genre, and the ballet film through 1947 : part 2, the man was mad

but a genius!

If you can disregard the plot : the red shoes in an American context

The second act will be quite different : cinema, culture, and ballet in the 1950s

Turning points :

Ballet and its bodies in the "post-studio" era.