The time of our lives: Dirty Dancing and popular culture

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Notes

^1. Data taken from Box Office Mojo, accessed July 24, 2012, http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id = dirtydancing.htm

^2. For an example of begrudging, reluctant praise, see R. Schickel, ‘Cinema: Teenage Turmoil’, Time, September 14, 1987, accessed July 24, 2012, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965450,00.html

^3. J. David Slocum, Rebel Without a Cause: Approaches to a Maverick Masterwork. (New York: State University of New York Press, 2005). It should be noted that Cambridge Film Handbooks (1997–2005) published 17 edited volumes devoted to individual films, and the Focus On … series from Prentice Hall in the early 1970s devoted a further seven edited volumes to individual films.