The Oxford handbook of dance and the popular screen / edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

An Australian in Paris: techno-choreographic bohemianism in Moulin rouge! / Clare Parfitt-Brown -- A different kind of ballet: rereading Dorothy Arzner's Dance, girl, dance / Mary Simonson -- Communities of practice: active and affective viewing of early social dance on the popular screen / Alexandra Harlig -- Disciplining Black swan: animalizing ambition / Ariel Osterweis -- Gene Kelly, the original: updated / Mary Fogarty -- Appreciation, appropriation, assimilation: Stormy weather and the Hollywood history of black dance / Susie Trenka -- Hip-hop in Hollywood: encounter, community, resistance / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Dirty dancing: dance, class, and race in the pursuit of womanhood / Colleen Dunagan and Roxane Fenton -- Displace and be queen: gender and in Dirty dancing-Havana nights (2004) / Cindy García -- "It's sort of 'members only'": transgression and body politics in Save the last dance for me / Inna Arzumanova -- "The white girl in the middle": the performativity of race, class, and gender in Step up 2-the streets / Raquel L. Monroe -- Affect-ive moves: space, violence, and the body of RIZE's Krump dancing / Stephanie L. Batiste -- A taste of honey: choreographing mulatta in the Hollywood dance film / Melissa Blanco Borelli -- "He's doing his Superman thing again": moving bodies in The matrix / Derek A. Burrill -- Girl power, real politics: dis/respectability, post-raciality, and the politics of inclusion / Takiyah Nur Amin -- Denaturalizing Coco's "sexy" hips: contradictions and reversals of the dancing body of a Chinese American superstar in mandarin pop / Chih-Chieh Liu -- Single ladies, plural: racism, scandal, and "authenticity" within the multiplication and circulation of online dance discourses / Philippa Thomas -- The dance factor: hip-hop, spectacle, and reality television / Laura Robinson -- Defining dance--creating commodity: the rhetoric of So you think you can dance / Alexis A. Weisbrod -- Hatchets and hairbrushes: dance, gender, and improvisational ingenuity in Cold War Western musicals / Kathaleen Boche -- Some dance scenes from Cuban cinema, 1959-2012 / Victor Fowler ; translated by Tom Phillips -- "Shine your light on the world": the utopian bodies of Dave Chappelle's Block party / Rosemary Candelario -- Of snake dances, overseas brides, and Miss World pageants: frolicking through Gurinder Chadha's Bride and prejudice / Amita Nijhawan -- Monstrous belonging: performing "Thriller" after 9/11 / Harmony Bench -- Dancing "between the break beats": contemporary indigenous thought and cultural expression through hip-hop / Karyn T.D. Recollet -- Dancing with myself: Dance central, choreography, and embodiment / Melissa Blanco Borelli and Derek A. Burrill -- Values in motion: reflections on popular screen dance / Sherril Dodds.

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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.

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