Deconstructing Dirty Dancing
Author | : Stephen Lee Naish |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2017-04-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781782799726 |
ISBN-13 | : 1782799729 |
Rating | : 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Download or read book Deconstructing Dirty Dancing written by Stephen Lee Naish and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing "might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything." In this broadly researched and accessible text, Stephen Lee Naish sets out to deconstruct and unlock a film that has haunted him for decades, and argues that Dirty Dancing, the 1987 sleeper hit about a young middle-class girl who falls for a handsome working-class dance instructor, is actually about everything. The film is a union of history, politics, sixties and eighties culture, era-defining music, class, gender, and race, and of course features one of the best love stories set to film. Using scene-by-scene analyses, personal interpretation, and comparative study, it's time to take Dirty Dancing out of the corner and place it under the microscope.