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Movies, moves and music : the sonic world of dance films / edited by Mark Evans and Mary Fogarty.
- Title
- Movies, moves and music : the sonic world of dance films / edited by Mark Evans and Mary Fogarty.
- Publication
- Sheffield, Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing, 2016.
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- Description
- vi, 267 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. It has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose, and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words. Meanwhile, Bollywood has become a juggernaut, creating transportable memory for diasporic Indian communities across the world. This is an entire industry based on the 'dance number', where films are pitched around the choreography, where the actors are not expected to sing, but they must dance. This volume investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It considers the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film, including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco, Irish Dance and Krumping. Drawing on significant post-War dance films from around world, Movies, Moves and Music comprehensively surveys this mainstream genre, where image and sound meet in a crucial symbiosis." -- Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Genre, music and sound
- Uniform Title
- Genre, music and sound
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The sonic world of dance films / Mark Evans and Mary Fogarty -- From choreocinema to experimental screendance: a personal archaeology / Greg Faller -- From Beat Street to Step up 3D: the sound of street dance films / Mary Fogarty -- Space, authenticity and utopia in the hip-hop teen dance film / Faye Woods -- The school and "the streets": race, class, sound, and space in Step up and Step up 2 / Brian Su-jen Chung and Afia Ofori-mensa -- The essence and momentum of honey: an interplay of sound and movement / Diane Hughes -- Gone in a flash(dance): the estrangement of diegetic performance in the 1980s teen dance film / Kelly Kessler -- "Anything but ballet": individuality, genre-bending, and sexual expression in center stage / Gillian Turnbull -- Zoot suit mayhem: swing dance and the politics of revisionist history in Steven Spielberg's 1941 / Philip Hayward and Jon Fitzgerald -- Across the universe and nostalgia: re-presenting the Beatles through moving images and dancing bodies / Colleen Cunagan and Roxane Fenton -- Looking for the past in pastiche: intertextuality in Bollywood song-and-dance sequences / Usha Iyer -- The call to rize / Megan Anne Todd -- Resounding neurological ecologies: choreographing the body's lost interactions with the world / Sarah-Mace Dennis.
- ISBN
- 9781781794449 (hb)
- 1781794448 (hb)
- 9781845539580 (pb)
- 1845539583 (pb)
- LCCN
- ^^2015030848
- 40025813819
- OCLC
- 919104795
- SCSB-10281654
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library