The Oxford handbook of dance and the popular screen /

The Oxford handbook of dance and the popular screen / Handbook of dance and the popular screen Dance and the popular screen edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli. - 496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm. - Oxford handbooks in music . - Oxford handbooks in music. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Specialized.

9780190661540 (pbk.) : £32.99


Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.
Performing Arts.
Performing Arts.

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