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Movies, Moves and Music

The Sonic World of Dance Films
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Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. It has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words. Meanwhile, Bollywood has become a juggernaut, creating transportable memory for diasporic Indian communities across the world. This is an entire industry based on the 'dance number', where films are pitched around the choreography, where the actors are not expected to sing, but they must dance.This volume investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It considers the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film, including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco, Irish Dance and Krumping. Drawing on significant post-War dance films from around world, Movies, Moves and Music comprehensively surveys this mainstream genre, where image and sound meet in a crucial symbiosis.

Author Biography:

Mark Evans is a professor in and head of the School of Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney. Mary Fogarty is Assistant Professor of Dance at York University, Canada.
Release date Australia
February 29th, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Mark Evans
  • Edited by Mary Fogarty
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
46 figures
Imprint
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Pages
276
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Dimensions
156x234x20
ISBN-13
9781781794449
Product ID
24705475

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