The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

2017-03-14 Performing Arts

Author : Helen Thomas
Release : 2017-03-14
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 771/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory by : Helen Thomas

Download or read book The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory written by Helen Thomas. This book was released on 2017-03-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.

Meaning in Motion

1997 Performing Arts

Author : Jane Desmond
Release : 1997
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 429/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Meaning in Motion written by Jane Desmond. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On dance and culture

Of the Presence of the Body

2004-03-24 Performing Arts

Author : André Lepecki
Release : 2004-03-24
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 126/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Of the Presence of the Body written by André Lepecki. This book was released on 2004-03-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies.

Bodies of the Text

1995 Literary Criticism

Author : Ellen W. Goellner
Release : 1995
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 275/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Bodies of the Text written by Ellen W. Goellner. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual. Bodies of the Text is the first book-length study of the interconnections between the two arts and the body of writing about them. The essays, by scholar-critics of dance and literature, explore dances actual and fictional to offer powerful new insights into issues of gender, race, ethnicity, popular culture, feminist aesthetics, historical "embodiment," identity politics, and narrativity. The general introduction traces the genealogy of dance studies in the academy to suggest why critical and theoretical attention to dance--and dance's challenges to writing--is both compelling and overdue. A milestone in interdisciplinary studies, Bodies of the Text opens both its fields to new inquiry, new theoretical precision, and to new readers and writers.

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