{"product_id":"a-queer-history-of-the-ballet-paperback","title":"A Queer History of the Ballet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Stoneley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesigned for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, \u003cem\u003eA Queer History of the Ballet\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ballet has been a means of conjuring homosexuality - of enabling some degree of expression and visibility for people who were otherwise declared illegal and obscene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudies include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe perverse sororities of the Romantic ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe fairy in folklore, literature, and ballet\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTchaikovsky and the making of Swan Lake\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiaghilev's Ballets Russes and the emergence of queer modernity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe formation of ballet in America\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe queer uses of the prima ballerina\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGenet's writings for and about ballet.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso including a consideration of how ballet's queer tradition has been memorialized by such contemporary dance-makers as Neumeier, Bausch, Bourne, and Preljocaj, this is an essential book in the study of ballet and queer history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8.54 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724035330111,"sku":"9780415972802","price":106.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8037e5da8f36bdbf49dfe23444c4dc9e.webp?v=1765101248","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-queer-history-of-the-ballet-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}