The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF DANCE AND THE POPULAR SCREEN

Edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Dance on Screen

Melissa Blanco Borelli

Screened Histories

1. A Cyborg in Paris: Moulin Rouge!and prosthetic memory

Claire Parfitt-Brown

2. A Different Kind of Ballet: Rereading Dorothy Arzner’sDance Girl Dance

Mary Simonson

3. Communities of Practice: Active and Affective Viewing of Ballroom, the Charleston and the Twist on the Popular Screen

Alexandra Harlig

4. Disciplining Black Swan, Animalizing Ambition

Ariel Osterweis

5. Gene Kelly: The Original, Updated

Mary Fogarty

6. Appreciation – Appropriation – Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood History of Black Dance

Susie Trenka

7. Impossible Moves: Early Hip Hop, B-Boying and Hollywood Production

Thomas DeFrantz

The Commercial Big Screen

8. Dirty Dancing: Dance, Class, and Race in the Pursuit of Womanhood

Colleen Dunagan and Roxane Fenton

9. Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)

Cindy García

10. “It’s Sort of ‘Members Only’”: Transgression and Body Politics in Save the Last Dance

Inna Arzumanova

11. “The White Girl in the Middle:” The Performativity of Race, Class, and Gender in Step Up 2: The Streets

Raquel Monroe

12. Affect-ive Moves: Violence, Space, and the Body in RIZE’s krump dancing

Stephanie L. Batiste

13. A Taste of Honey: Choreographing Mulatta in the Hollywood Dance Film

Melissa Blanco Borelli

14. “He’s doing his Superman thing again”: Moving Bodies in The Matrix

Derek A. Burrill

The Music Video and Televisual Bodies

15. Girl Power, Real Politics: Dis/Respectability, Post-Raciality and the Politics of Inclusion

TakiyahNur Amin

16. ‘Sexiness’ in disguise: Dancing ‘Chinese-American’ in Coco Lee’s Hip Hop Tonight (2006)

Chih-Chieh Liu

17. Single Ladies, Plural: Racism, Scandal and Authenticity within the Multiplication of Online Discourses

Philippa Thomas

18. The Dance Factor: Hip Hop, Spectacle and Reality Television

Laura Robinson

19. Defining Dance, Creating Commodity: The Rhetoric of So You Think You Can Dance

Alexis A. Weisbrod

Screening Nationhood

20. Hatchets and Hairbrushes: Dance, Gender, and Improvisational Ingenuity in Cold War Western Musicals

KathaleenBoche

21. Cuba: Understanding the Revolution through Dance(d) Scenes

Victor Fowler (translated by Tom Phillips)

22. Shine Your Light on the World: The Utopian Bodies of Dave Chappelle’s Block Party

Rosemary Candelario

23. Snake Dances and Marriageable Daughters: Defining Self and Nation in Bride and Prejudice

AmitaNijhawan

Cyber Screens

24. Monstrous Belonging: Performing ‘Thriller’ After 9/11

Harmony Bench

25. 'Dancing between the break beats': contemporary urban Indigenous thought and cultural expression through hip-hop

KarynRecollet

26. Dancing With Myself: Dance Central, Choreography and Embodiment

Derek Burrill and Melissa Blanco Borelli

Conclusion

27. Values in Motion: Reflections on Popular Screen Dance

SherrilDodds