Dancing women : choreographing corporeal histories of popular Hindi cinema /
Iyer, Usha, 1974-
Dancing women : choreographing corporeal histories of popular Hindi cinema / Usha Iyer. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
'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.
9780190938772 (ebook) : No price
Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.--History.--India
Musical films--India--History and criticism.
Women dancers--India.
793.31954
Dancing women : choreographing corporeal histories of popular Hindi cinema / Usha Iyer. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
'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.
9780190938772 (ebook) : No price
Dance in motion pictures, television, etc.--History.--India
Musical films--India--History and criticism.
Women dancers--India.
793.31954