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Starstruck British boys under the spell of the film Billy Elliot have made history at the Royal Ballet by outnumbering girls for the first time in its 76-year history, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
Two years after the story of a miner's son who becomes a ballet dancer hit movie screens, this year's intake at the Royal Ballet's junior and senior schools includes 14 boys and 10 girls, the newspaper said. "The film has certainly had some effect on the younger boys," said Gailene Stock, director of the Royal Ballet School. "A number of boys at the school have said that Billy Elliot made them feel more comfortable about telling people they are ballet dancers."
The Globe and Mail, 4/16/02
Mike's a junior at Beacon, a public high school; he asked that I not use his last name. He's a bodybuilder, likes to fight. "When we used to go out I'd pray to get into a fight," he said.
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Film is not just text. It is also cultural practice, and should be approached and studied as such. It is made under specific cultural circumstances, and yet it also influences the circumstances of culture. We allow,...