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:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The practice of dance and the technologies of representation has excited artists since the advent of film. This book weaves together theory from art and dance as well as appropriate historical reference material to propose a new theory of screendance, one that frames it within the discourse of post-modern art practice.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; About the Companion Website; Preface; Introduction: Inscribing Hybridity; 1. Archives and Architecture; 2. Mediated Bodies: From Photography to Cine-Dance; 3. Recorporealization and the Mediated Body; 4. The Advent of Video Culture; 5. The Bride is Dance; 6. Excavating Genres; 7. Curating the Practice/The Practice of Curating; 8. "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees," or Connoisseurship in Screendance; 9. Toward a Theory of Screendance; 10. Negotiating the Academy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J

KL; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 9, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-977262-2

9786613593696

1-280-49846-3

0-19-977317-3

OCLC:

793206758