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

Contributor(s): Blanco Borelli, Melissa [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford handbooks in musicPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: 496 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190661540 (pbk.) :Other title: Handbook of dance and the popular screen | Dance and the popular screenSubject(s): Dance in motion pictures, television, etc | Performing Arts | Performing ArtsDDC classification: 791.4'36579 Summary: 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.
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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.

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