Abstract
West Side Story, on both stage and screen, remains one of the most significant and influential creations in musical genre history thanks to its precise integration of story, music, performance, and dance. Choreography’s narrative centrality in the 1961 film adaptation (directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise) is the focus of my video essay, “America is (not) Cool.” The film’s formal use of dance merits greater attention, and my essay demonstrates this through a multiscreen analysis of two key dance sequences: “America” and “Cool.”
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Publisher | [in]Transition Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies |
| Edition | 5.3 |
| State | Published - 2018 |