Meaning in Motion New Cultural Studies of Dance

Name: Meaning in Motion New Cultural Studies of Dance
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ISBN: 9780822319429

ISBN-10: 082231942X

ISBN-13: 9780822319429

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jane C. Desmond, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson

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List price: $30.95
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Dance and Cultural Studies



Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies




Cultural Studies and Dance History




Social Lives, Social Bodies



Reinstating Corporeality: Feminism and Body Politics




"The Story Is Told as a History of the Body": Strategies of Mimesis in the Work of Irigaray and Bausch




Classical Ballet: A Discourse of Difference




Ballet as Ideology: Giselle, Act 2




Dancing the Orient for England: Maud Allan's The Vision of Salome




The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze: Feminist Critiques of Early Modern Dance




Some Thoughts on Choreographing History




Auto-Body Stories: Blondell Cummings and Autobiography in Dance




Dance Narratives and Fantasies of Achievement




Expanding Agendas for Critical Thinking



Dancing Bodies




Spectacle and Dancing Bodies That Matter: Or, If It Don't Fit, Don't Force It




Sense, Meaning, and Perception in Three Dance Cultures




Some Notes on Yvonne Rainer, Modernism, Politics, Emotion, Performance, and the Aftermath




Homogenized Ballerinas




Dance Ethnography and the Limits of Representation




Vodou, Nationalism, and Performance: The Staging of Folklore in Mid-Twentieth-Century Haiti



Notes on Contributors


Permissions


Index