Deconstructing Dirty Dancing

By Stephen Lee Naish

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782799710
• ISBN13: 9781782799719
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Zer0 Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"