The Oxford handbook of dance and the popular screen / edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blanco Borelli, Melissa, editor.

Series:

Oxford handbooks in music.

Oxford handbooks in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 pages)

Other Title:

Handbook of dance and the popular screen

Dance and the popular screen

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

This anthology offers contemporary perspectives on dance in the context of the popular screen. It analyzes the role played by the dancing body in popular culture and its multi-layered meanings in film, television, music videos, video games, commercials, and Internet sites such as YouTube. It explores how dance and choreography function within the filmic apparatus, and how the narrative, dancing bodies, and/or dance style set in motion multiple choreographies of identity such as race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation.

Contents:

Introduction: Dance on Screen; PART I SCREENED HISTORIES; 1 An Australian in Paris: Techno-Choreographic Bohemianism in Moulin Rouge!; 2 A Different Kind of Ballet: Rereading Dorothy Arzner's Dance, Girl, Dance; 3 Communities of Practice: Active and Affective Viewing of Early Social Dance on the Popular Screen; 4 Disciplining Black Swan, Animalizing Ambition; 5 Gene Kelly: The Original, Updated

6 Appreciation, Appropriation, Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood History of Black Dance7 Hip-Hop in Hollywood: Encounter, Community, Resistance; PART II THE COMMERCIAL BIG SCREEN; 8 Dirty Dancing: Dance, Class, and Race in the Pursuit of Womanhood; 9 Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004); 10 "It's Sort of 'Members Only'.": Transgression and Body Politics in Save the Last Dance; 11 "The White Girl in the Middle": The Performativity of Race, Class, and Gender in Step Up 2: The Streets

12 Affect-ive Moves: Space, Violence, and the Body in RIZE's Krump Dancing13 A Taste of Honey: Choreographing Mulatta in the Hollywood Dance Film; 14 "He's Doing His Superman Thing Again": Moving Bodies in The Matrix; PART III MUSIC VIDEO AND TELEVISUAL BODIES; 15 Girl Power, Real Politics: Dis/Respectability, Post-Raciality, and the Politics of Inclusion; 16 Denaturalizing Coco's "Sexy" Hips: Contradictions and Reversals of the Dancing Body of a Chinese American Superstar in Mand

17 Single Ladies, Plural: Racism, Scandal, and "Authenticity" within the Multiplication and Circulation of Online Dance Disco18 The Dance Factor: Hip-Hop, Spectacle, and Reality Television; 19 Defining Dance, Creating Commodity: The Rhetoric of So You Think You Can Dance; PART IV SCREENING NATIONHOOD; 20 Hatchets and Hairbrushes: Dance, Gender, and Improvisational Ingenuity in Cold War Western Musicals; 21 Some Dance Scenes from Cuban Cinema, 1959-2012; 22 "Shine Your Light on the World": The Utopian Bodies of Dave Chappelle's Block Party

23 Of Snake Dances, Overseas Brides, and Miss World Pageants: Frolicking through Gurinder Chadha's Bride and PrejudicePART V CYBER SCREENS; 24 Monstrous Belonging: Performing "Thriller" after 9/11; 25 Dancing "between the Break Beats": Contemporary Indigenous Thought and Cultural Expression through Hip-Hop; 26 Dancing with Myself: Dance Central, Choreography, and Embodiment; PART VI CONCLUSION; 27 Values in Motion: Reflections on Popular Screen Dance; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780190661540

0190661542

9780199983490

0199983496

9780199897834

0199897832