Aesthetic pleasure in twentieth-century women's food writing
About this book
From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet's popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies.
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· 196 pages · ≈ 3 h 38 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Aesthetic pleasure in twentieth-century women's food writing?
About ≈ 3 h 38 m — 196 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Aesthetic pleasure in twentieth-century women's food writing?
196 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Aesthetic pleasure in twentieth-century women's food writing?
It sits on the Cooking, Essays, History shelves.
Is Aesthetic pleasure in twentieth-century women's food writing in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Aesthetic pleasure in twentieth-century women's food writing?
Alice L. McLean.