Dancing women : choreographing corporeal histories of Hindi cinema / Usha Iyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iyer, Usha, 1974- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance in motion pictures, television, etc--India--History.

Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.

Musical films--India--History and criticism.

Musical films.

Women dancers--India.

Women dancers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

'Dancing Women', an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms-cinema and dance-historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce unique constructions of gender, stardom, and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven around their dancing bodies, the text considers the 'women's question' via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women.

Contents:

Introduction: A Corporeal History of Hindi Film Dance

Dance Musicalization and the Choreomusicking Body

Choreographing Architectures of Public Intimacy

Corporealizing Colonial Modernities

From the Cabaret Number to the Melodrama of Dance Reform

Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai (What is Behind the Stardom)?

Epilogue.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-093876-5

0-19-093877-3

0-19-093875-7