The choreographer-director and the synergy of music and moving image
Astaire's outlaw style and its new world roots
Astaire's roots in ballroom, ballet, and other forms
Old world meets new world on Broadway: Balanchivadze and Dukelsky meet the Gershwins and Rodgers and Hart
Balanchine in Hollywood: jazz ballet for the camera
Dancing with the camera: introducing Kelly and Donen
Song and dance as courtship
Freedom incarnate: the dancing sailor as an icon of American values in World War II
'S wonderful: euphoric street dances
Dreaming in dance: Astaire, Minnelli, Kelly, and Donen
Making film dance: the through-composed, through-choreographed musical