A Dance Film with Legs: The Dirty Dancing Franchise
Author(s)
Howell, Amanda
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2013
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This essay assembles a history of the Dirty Dancing franchise--its soundtracks and music singles, ancillary products and collectibles, spin-offs, sequels, reissues and stage performances--to consider what its pattern of profit and loss, success and failure reveals about the appeal of a film that has become a cult object of pop film, music and dance cultures.This essay assembles a history of the Dirty Dancing franchise--its soundtracks and music singles, ancillary products and collectibles, spin-offs, sequels, reissues and stage performances--to consider what its pattern of profit and loss, success and failure reveals about the appeal of a film that has become a cult object of pop film, music and dance cultures.
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Book Title
The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture
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Subject
Cinema Studies
Film and Television
Media Studies