Usha Iyer

Dancing Women

Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new look at Indian film dance, this book engages with the display and mobilization of the female dancing body to propose new models for theorizing film dance and music more generally. Author Usha Iyer offers a new understanding of how female dancer-actors impact narratives and the music composed for them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780190938741
• ISBN-10: 0190938749
• Artikelnr.: 59474226

Autorenporträt

Usha Iyer is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: A Corporeal History of Hindi Film Dance
* 1. Dance Musicalization and the Choreomusicking Body
* Corporealizing Theoretical Frameworks of Film Dance and Music
* 2. Choreographing Architectures of Public Intimacy
* A Spatio-Corporeal Approach to Hindi Film Dance
* 3. Corporealizing Colonial Modernities
* Azurie and Sadhona Bose as Co-Choreographers of New Mobilities in the
1930s and 1940s
* 4. From the Cabaret Number to the Melodrama of Dance Reform
* Folded Corporeal Histories of the Dancer-Actress in the 1950s and
1960s
* 5. Stardom Ke Peeche Kya Hai (What Is behind the Stardom)?
* Saroj Khan and Madhuri Dixit as Co-Choreographers of 1990s Bollywood
Femininity
* Epilogue: An Intermedial History of Hindi Film, Dance, and Music
* Index