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    Author(s)Melissa Blanco Borelli
    PublisherOxford
    ISBN9780190661540
    Pages496
    BindingPaperback
    LanguageEnglish
    Publish YearMay 2017

    Description

    Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen 2017 Edition by Melissa Blanco Borelli

    The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen sets the agenda for the study of dance in popular moving images - films, television shows, commercials, music videos, and YouTube - and offers new ways to understand the multi-layered meanings of the dancing body by engaging with methodologies from critical dance studies, performance studies, and film/media analysis. Through thorough engagement with these approaches, the chapters demonstrate how dance on
    the popular screen might be read and considered through bodies and choreographies in moving media.

    Questions the contributors consider include: How do dance and choreography function within the filmic apparatus? What types of bodies are associated with specific dances and how does this affect how dance(s) is/are perceived in the everyday? How do the dancing bodies on screen negotiate power, access, and agency? How are multiple choreographies of identity (e.g., race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation) set in motion through the narrative, dancing bodies, and/or dance style? What types of
    corporeal labors (dance training, choreographic skill, rehearsal, the constructed notion of "natural talent") are represented or ignored? What role does a specific film have in the genealogy of Hollywood dance film? How does the Hollywood dance film inform how dance operates in making cultural
    meanings?

    Whether looking at Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's tap steps in Stormy Weather, or Baby's leap into Johnny Castle's arms in Dirty Dancing, or even Neo's backwards bend in The Matrix, the book's arguments offer powerful new scholarship on dance in the popular screen.

     

    Table of contents

    Introduction: Dance on Screen
    Melissa Blanco Borelli

    Screened Histories
    1. An Australian in Paris: techno-choreographic bohemianism in Moulin Rouge!
    Clare Parfitt-Brown
    2. A Different Kind of Ballet: Rereading Dorothy Arzner's Dance Girl Dance
    Mary Simonson
    3. Communities of Practice: Active and Affective Viewing of Ballroom, the Charleston and the Twist on the Popular Screen
    Alexandra Harlig
    4. Disciplining Black Swan, Animalizing Ambition
    Ariel Osterweis
    5. Gene Kelly: The Original, Updated
    Mary Fogarty
    6. Appreciation - Appropriation - Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood History of Black Dance
    Susie Trenka
    7. Impossible Moves: Early Hip Hop, B-Boying and Hollywood Production
    Thomas DeFrantz

    The Commercial Big Screen
    8. Dirty Dancing: Dance, Class, and Race in the Pursuit of Womanhood
    Colleen Dunagan and Roxane Fenton
    9. Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
    Cindy Garcia
    10. "It's Sort of 'Members Only'": Transgression and Body Politics in Save the Last Dance
    Inna Arzumanova
    11. "The White Girl in the Middle:" The Performativity of Race, Class, and Gender in Step Up 2: The Streets
    Raquel Monroe
    12. Affect-ive Moves: Violence, Space, and the Body in RIZE's krump dancing
    Stephanie L. Batiste
    13. A Taste of Honey: Choreographing Mulatta in the Hollywood Dance Film
    Melissa Blanco Borelli
    14. "He's doing his Superman thing again": Moving Bodies in The Matrix
    Derek A. Burrill

    The Music Video and Televisual Bodies
    15. Girl Power, Real Politics: Dis/Respectability, Post-Raciality and the Politics of Inclusion
    Takiyah Nur Amin
    16. 'Sexiness' in disguise: Dancing 'Chinese-American' in Coco Lee's Hip Hop Tonight (2006)
    Chih-Chieh Liu
    17. Single Ladies, Plural: Racism, Scandal and Authenticity within the Multiplication of Online Discourses
    Philippa Thomas
    18. The Dance Factor: Hip Hop, Spectacle and Reality Television
    Laura Robinson
    19. Dance, Creating Commodity: The Rhetoric of So You Think You Can Dance
    Alexis A. Weisbrod

    Screening Nationhood
    20. Hatchets and Hairbrushes: Dance, Gender, and Improvisational Ingenuity in Cold War Western Musicals
    Kathaleen Boche
    21. Cuba: Understanding the Revolution through Dance(d) Scenes
    Victor Fowler (translated by Tom Phillips)
    22. Shine Your Light on the World: The Utopian Bodies of Dave Chappelle's Block Party
    Rosemary Candelario
    3. Snake Dances and Marriageable Daughters: Defining Self and Nation in Bride and Prejudice
    Amita Nijhawan

    Cyber Screens
    24. Monstrous Belonging: Performing 'Thriller' After 9/11
    Harmony Bench
    25. 'Dancing between the break beats': contemporary urban Indigenous thought and cultural expression through hip-hop
    Karyn Recollet
    26. Dancing With Myself: Dance Central, Choreography and Embodiment
    Derek Burrill and Melissa Blanco Borelli

    Conclusion
    27. Values in Motion: Reflections on Popular Screen Dance
    Sherril Dodds.