Screendance : inscribing the ephemeral image / Douglas Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenberg, Douglas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

This groundbreaking book considers screendance both as a visual art form and as an extension of modern and post-modern dance. As he reconstructs the history and influences of screendance, author Douglas Rosenberg presents a theoretical guide to navigating the boundaries of an inherently collaborative art form. Drawing on psychoanalytic, literary, materialist, queer, and feminist modes of analysis, Rosenberg explores the relationships between camera and subject, director and dancer, and the ephemeral nature of dance and the fixed nature of film. Rosenberg also discusses the audiences and venues of screendance and the tensions between commercial and fine-art cultures that the form has confronted. Both a history and a critical framework, Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image is a new and important look at the subject. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Archives and Architecture 14

2 Mediated Bodies: From Photography to Cine-Dance 33

3 Recorporealization and the Mediated Body 53

4 The Advent of Video Culture 73

5 The Bride is Dance 93

6 Excavating Genres 110

7 Curating the Practice/The Practice of Curating 126

8 "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees," or Connoisseurship in Screendance 141

9 Toward a Theory of Screendance 154

10 Negotiating the Academy 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199772612

0199772614

9780199772629

0199772622

OCLC:

733936112