The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popula. Lincoln, Tzioumakis<|

The Time of Our LivesDirty Dancing and Popular Culture\nAuthor(s): Sin Lincoln, Yannis Tzioumakis\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wayne State University Press, United States\nImprint: Wayne State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814336243, 978-0814336243\nSynopsis\nA low-budget independent film made by a now defunct video company in the late 1980s, Dirty Dancing became a sleeper hit with a huge, primarily young audience. Even twenty-five years on, the film has found millions of devoted fans around the world through TV, video, and DVD releases. In The Time of Our Lives: \""\""Dirty Dancing\""\"" and Popular Culture editors Yannis Tzioumakis and Sin Lincoln bring together leading scholars of film, media, music, culture, theatre, dance and sociology to examine for the first time the global cultural phenomenon of Dirty Dancing. Tzioumakis and Lincoln begin by assessing Dirty Dancing's cultural impact in the decades since its release and introduce contributors in four sections. Essays in \""\""Dir.