Afterimages

Arlene Croce

Vintage Books

The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers book

This book one has the "flip" pictures in the top right and left corners of the book.That is there are a series of incremental pictures that if one flips through at a causal speed,they can see Astaire and Rogers dancing in two different numbers.A nice little touch. The best thing about this book though is how the author approaches her subject matter.She starts off the book giving us a short but well rounded look at both subjects and careers pre-teaming.Like the rest of the book you know here is a person who knows her subject matter inside and out and never writes DOWN to the reader.She writes more like a friend imparting details and essential background material on a subject you both love. After the intro(about 18 pages) we come to the heart of the book,the film by film look at the ten benchmark motion pictures made starring Astaire and Rogers. Each chapter is divided into four areas.First are the detailed production and acting credits.Second comes "The Film",thirdly "The Numbers" and lastly "Production".This is repeated for each chapter/film throughout the book and the details and knowledge she imparts are invaluable to any serious student of this dancing duo.Her prose are definitely not dry by any stretch and she keeps you riveted to the page throughout. ( amazon customer)

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Outerbridge & Lazard; distributed by Dutton

Originally published in 1972 by Outerbridge and Dienstfrey, this book is an extended appreciation of the Astaire/Rogers films. It has been carefully reprocessed with major quality improvements in most of the pictures. The author has made some corrections to the text, and there is a new introduction by Garry Wills. I think it's perfectly safe to say that this is the best book that will ever be written about Astaire and Rogers-Pauline Kael One of the best studies of popular culture anyone has written-Newsweek One of the best-loved works in dance literature. In prose that perfectly rises to the thrill of these classics, she herself produced a classic-New York Times (2009)

Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, The

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Educational Publisher

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