Dancing women : choreographing corporeal histories of popular Hindi cinema / Usha Iyer.
2020
GV1779 .I94 2020
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Title
Dancing women : choreographing corporeal histories of popular Hindi cinema / Usha Iyer.
Author
Iyer, Usha, 1974- author.
ISBN
9780190938772 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
GV1779 .I94 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
793.31954
Summary
'Dancing Women', an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms-cinema and dance-historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce unique constructions of gender, stardom, and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven around their dancing bodies, the text considers the 'women's question' via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women.
Note
'Dancing Women', an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms-cinema and dance-historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce unique constructions of gender, stardom, and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven around their dancing bodies, the text considers the 'women's question' via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 25, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780190938734
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