The Oxford handbook of dance and the popular screen

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 explore...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Blanco Borelli, Melissa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2014, [2014]Ã2014
Series:Oxford handbooks in music / Oxford handbooks in music
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Collection: Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 476 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780199983490