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OverviewAn insider explores the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Caroline Joan S. PicartPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Edition: Annotated edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9780791466292ISBN 10: 0791466299 Pages: 177 Publication Date: 01 January 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. The Contested Landscape of Ballroom Dance: Culture, Gender, Race, Class, and Nationality in Performance 2. Dancing through Different Worlds: An Autoethnography of the Interactive Body and Virtual Emotions in Ballroom Dance 3. Ballroom and the Movies 4. Paving the Road to the Olympics: Staging and Financing the Olympic Dream 5. Packaging Fantasy and Morality 6. Quo Vadis? Ballroom-Dance-Related Organizations Appendix: Filmography of Selected DanceSport and Ballroom Films Notes Bibliography IndexReviews"""This book on the politics, aesthetics, and cultural underpinnings of ballroom dancing and DanceSport is written by someone who participates in both, and this lends an immediacy and authority to the author. Picart is able to provide a very thoughtful and subtle analysis of how society positions itself on the transformation of an art form into a sport.""" This book on the politics, aesthetics, and cultural underpinnings of ballroom dancing and DanceSport is written by someone who participates in both, and this lends an immediacy and authority to the author. Picart is able to provide a very thoughtful and subtle analysis of how society positions itself on the transformation of an art form into a sport. Author InformationCaroline Joan S. Picart captured second place at the 2005 United States DanceSport Championships in the World Pro Am Cabaret Champion category, as well as second place at the Millennium National Pro Am Cabaret Championship. When not dancing, she is Associate Professor of English and Courtesy Associate Professor of Law at Florida State University, and is the author of many books, including Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror, also published by SUNY Press, and Inside Notes from the Outside. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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