performing and choreographing dance for film. Since Astaire’s background included several varieties of dance, he pursued advanced partnership choreography as opposed to large-scale choreography sets. He also utilized dance numbers to expand the narrative as opposed to Berkeley, who treated the numbers as a suspension of the plot (Dodds 6). Berkeley’s pieces are relevant to the plot, though not exactly necessary; therefore, creations
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and