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The Real Dirty Dancing reduces a political film to little more than coy dance numbers

Author: Jessica Ford, Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Newcastle
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imageWhen Dirty Dancing is reduced to its dance sequences, the powerful politics of the film are erased. Vestron Pictures

It’s 1963. Frances “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a college-bound teenager staying at Kellerman’s Mountain Lodge with her family. Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) is a dance instructor at the resort –...

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