Dance on Screen : Genres and Media from Hollywood to Experimental Art

by Dodds, Sherril

• ISBN13: 9780333801451
• ISBN10: 0333801458
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-08-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyses a selection of case studies from the popular dance imagery of music, video and Hollywood, through to experimental art dance. The focus then turns to video dance, dance originally choreographed for the camera. Video dance can be seen as a hybrid in which the theoretical and aesthetic boundaries of dance and television are traversed and disrupted.

Author Biography

Sherril Dodds is Lecturer in Dance Studies, University of Surrey.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Dance on Screen: A Contextual Framework	1	(35)
Visual culture in the late twentieth century	1	(3)
Histories of dance on screen	4	(12)
Screen dance and critical perspectives	16	(6)
A focus on screen dance practitioners	22	(7)
The live body and the screen body: a technical comparison	29	(7)
Images of Dance in the Screen Media	36	(32)
Hollywood dance films: popular representations of dance	37	(7)
Television advertising and dancing bodies	44	(5)
Dance and pop music video: a musicology of the image	49	(7)
The translation of theatre dance to screen	56	(6)
Early dance for the camera	62	(6)
Video Dance: Televisualizing the Dancing Body	68	(27)
An introduction to video dance	68	(3)
Manipulating the dancing body on screen	71	(9)
Choreographic content in video dance	80	(9)
The dance of the camera and the cut	89	(6)
Postmodern Dance Strategies on Television	95	(31)
Dance, television and postmodernism	95	(3)
Breaking the realist code	98	(8)
Fragmented narratives and episodic structures	106	(7)
The performing body	113	(7)
Seizing the spectator's eye	120	(6)
Hybrid Sites and Fluid Bodies	126	(49)
Video dance and hybridity	126	(1)
Video dance, television advertising and music video	127	(8)
The consumer body and the promotional network	135	(11)
Discourses of technology: the technophobic and the technophilic	146	(7)
The mechanical body	153	(6)
The digital body	159	(10)
The fluid body: transgression and disruption	169	(6)
Appendix: List of Works Discussed in Chapters 3 and 4	175	(2)
Notes	177	(9)
Bibliography	186	(8)
Index	194