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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.

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Author:   Melissa Blanco Borelli (Senior Lecturer, Drama and Theatre, Senior Lecturer, Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway University, London, United Kingdom)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.728kg
ISBN:  

9780190661540

ISBN 10:   0190661542
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   27 April 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 García 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"

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Melissa Blanco Borelli is Senior Lecturer in the Drama and Theatre Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Previously she was Lecturer in Dance and Film Studies at the University of Surrey.

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