{"product_id":"9780195382181","title":"Dance Me a Song: Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly, and the American Film Musical","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDance Me a Song\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history of famous Hollywood collaborations as the palimpsest of dance, film, and musical techniques were developed over time. Author Beth Genné draws on the most well-known and influential musical dances of the first half of the century, from the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' series in the thirties (\u003ci\u003eTop Hat, Swing Time, Shall We Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, and others), through the MGM film dances created and directed by Vincente Minnelli, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, and again Astaire, whose career continued at MGM in the forties and fifties (\u003ci\u003eYolanda and The Thief, The Pirate,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn the Town, Singin' in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, The Bandwagon\u003c\/i\u003e). George Balanchine, she argues, also plays an important part in this story, from his until now unrecognized collaborations with Vernon Duke and Vincente Minnelli to develop the \"jazz ballet\" form on Broadway (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eZiegfeld Follies\u003c\/i\u003e of 1936 and his choreography for \u003ci\u003eOn Your Toes\u003c\/i\u003e, 1936), to the 1939 film version of \u003ci\u003eOn Your Toes\u003c\/i\u003e and the dance sequences he directed with Greg Toland for the Hollywood movie \u003ci\u003eThe Goldwyn Follies\u003c\/i\u003e (1938). Busby Berkeley, whose moving camera techniques according to Gene Kelly \"broke down the proscenium frame of the stage\" for American dancers, forms a key part of the picture, as do early experimental French directors like René Clair and European immigrants to Hollywood Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian. \u003ci\u003eDance Me a Song\u003c\/i\u003e provides lively and necessary scholarship for all dance enthusiasts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010903392496,"sku":"9780195382181","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195382181_p0.jpg?v=1763664743","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195382181","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}