Alien Bodies: Representations of Modernity, 'Race' and Nation in Early Modern Dance
Autor Ramsay Burten Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 mar 1998
Among the artists who feature are:
* Josephine Baker
* Jean Borlin
* George Balanchine
* Jean Cocteau
* Valeska Gert
* Katherine Dunham
* Fernand Leger
* Kurt Jooss
* Doris Humphrey
Concerned with how artists responded to the alienating experiences of modern life, Alien Bodies focuses on issues of:
* national and 'racial' identity
* the new spaces of modernity
* fascists uses of mass spectacles
* ritual and primitivism in modern dance
* the 'New Woman' and the slender modern body
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415145947
ISBN-10: 0415145945
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415145945
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Postgraduate and UndergraduateNotă biografică
Ramsay Burt is the author of the highly acclaimed The Male Dancer. He is currently Senior Research Fellow in Dance at De Montfort University.
Cuprins
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Choreographing the Disturbing New Spaces of Modernity; Chapter 3 ‘Savage’ Dancer; Chapter 4 The Chorus Line and the Efficiency Engineers; Chapter 5 Totalitarianism and the Mass Ornament; Chapter 6 Dancing Across the Atlantic; Chapter 7 American Moderns; Chapter 8 Primitivism, Modernism and Ritual in the Work of Mary Wigman, Katherine Dunham and Martha Graham; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
Descriere
Looks at dance in Germany, France, and the United States during the 1920s and the 1930s, including ballet, modern dance and dance in the cinema and Revue. Artists examined include Josephine Baker, Jean Cocteau, Valeska Gert, and George Balanchine.