Dancefilm

Author : Erin Brannigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199887888

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Dancefilm by Erin Brannigan Pdf

Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image examines the choreographic in cinema - the way choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm. It traces the history of the form from some of its earliest manifestations in the silent film era, through the historic avant-garde, musicals and music videos to contemporary experimental short dancefilms. In so doing it also examines some of the most significant collaborations between dancers, choreographers, and filmmakers. The book also sets out to examine and rethink the parameters of dancefilm and thereby re-conceive the relations between dance and cinema. Dancefilm is understood as a modality that challenges familiar models of cinematic motion through its relation to the body, movement and time, instigating new categories of filmic performance and creating spectatorial experiences that are grounded in the somatic. Drawing on debates in both film theory (in particular ideas of gesture, the close up, and affect) and dance theory (concepts such as radical phrasing, the gestural anacrusis and somatic intelligence) and bringing these two fields into dialogue, the book argues that the combination of dance and film produces cine-choreographic practices that are specific to the dancefilm form. The book thus presents new models of cinematic movement that are both historically informed and thoroughly interdisciplinary.

Author : Douglas Rosenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199981618

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The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies by Douglas Rosenberg Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary, hybrid form that has yet to be correctly sited as an academic field worthy of critical investigation. Each chapter discusses and reframe current issues, as a means of promoting and enriching dialogue within the wider community of dance and the moving image. Topics addressed embrace politics of the body; agency, race, and gender in screendance; the relationship of choreography to image; constructs of space and time; representation and effacement; production and curatorial practice; and other areas of intersecting disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies features newly-commissioned and original scholarship that will be essential reading for all those interested in the intersection of dance and the moving image, including film and video-makers, dance artists, screendance artists, academics and writers, producers, composers, as well as the wider interested public. It will become an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals in the field.

Author : Mary Simonson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199898039

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Body Knowledge by Mary Simonson Pdf

This book traces the deployment of intermedial aesthetics in the works of early twentieth-century female performers. By destabilizing medial and genre boundaries, these women created compelling and meaningful performances that negotiated turn-of-the-century American social and cultural issues.

Author : Judy Mitoma,ELIZABETH ZIMMER,Dale Ann Stieber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135376444

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Envisioning Dance on Film and Video by Judy Mitoma,ELIZABETH ZIMMER,Dale Ann Stieber Pdf

Virtually everyone working in dance today uses electronic media technology. Envisioning Dance on Film and Video chronicles this 100-year history and gives readers new insight on how dance creatively exploits the art and craft of film and video. In fifty-three essays, choreographers, filmmakers, critics and collaborating artists explore all aspects of the process of rendering a three-dimensional art form in two-dimensional electronic media. Many of these essays are illustrated by ninety-three photographs and a two-hour DVD (40 video excerpts). A project of UCLA – Center for Intercultural Performance, made possible through The Pew Charitable Trusts (www.wac.ucla.edu/cip).

Author : Royona Mitra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137393661

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Akram Khan by Royona Mitra Pdf

Through seven key case studies from Khan's oeuvre, this book demonstrates how Akram Khan's 'new interculturalism' is a challenge to the 1980s western 'intercultural theatre' project, as a more nuanced and embodied approach to representing Othernesses, from his own position of the Other.

Author : Jeromy Hopgood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003849070

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Dance Production by Jeromy Hopgood Pdf

Dance Production: Design and Technology, Second Edition is an introduction to the skills needed to plan, design, and execute the technical aspects of a dance production. Covering a broad range of topics, author Jeromy Hopgood takes the reader through the process of producing dance from start to finish. Part I addresses the collaborative process, business and organizational concerns for dance companies, planning the production, and the relationship between dance and performance spaces/staging methods. In Part II, each unique production area is examined, including production and stage management, sound, costume and makeup, scenery and props, lighting, and projection/video design. Each design area is divided into two chapters – the first introducing key concepts, and the second focusing on the process of creating the design. Part III brings back the popular quick reference guides from the first edition, providing an expanded and revised tool to bridge the language gap between the worlds of theatrical production and dance, and ensure productive communication across the different fields. This second edition features updated information on technology and processes, two new chapters on touring and non-traditional productions, more information on arts management within dance production, a comprehensive look at dance and video (including remote/streaming performances, as well as dance film), and additional chapter projects throughout the book. This unique book approaches the process of staging a dance production from a balanced perspective, making it an essential resource for choreographers, theatre designers, dancers, and management personnel alike, including for use in Dance and Dance Production courses.

Author : Noël Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190683306

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Philosophy and the Moving Image by Noël Carroll Pdf

"This book is a selection of essays by Noël Carroll at the intersection of film and TV and major divisions of philosophy including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics"--

Author : John E. Mueller
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : MINN:31951000497117B

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Dance Film Directory by John E. Mueller Pdf

Author : Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781501342349

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Video Analysis by Lori A. Burns,Stan Hawkins Pdf

Music videos promote popular artists in cultural forms that circulate widely across social media networks. With the advent of YouTube in 2005 and the proliferation of handheld technologies and social networking sites, the music video has become available to millions worldwide, and continues to serve as a fertile platform for the debate of issues and themes in popular culture. This volume of essays serves as a foundational handbook for the study and interpretation of the popular music video, with the specific aim of examining the industry contexts, cultural concepts, and aesthetic materials that videos rely upon in order to be both intelligible and meaningful. Easily accessible to viewers in everyday life, music videos offer profound cultural interventions and negotiations while traversing a range of media forms. From a variety of unique perspectives, the contributors to this volume undertake discussions that open up new avenues for exploring the creative changes and developments in music video production. With chapters that address music video authorship, distribution, cultural representations, mediations, aesthetics, and discourses, this study signals a major initiative to provide a deeper understanding of the intersecting and interdisciplinary approaches that are invoked in the analysis of this popular and influential musical form.

Author : Telory D. Arendell,Ruth Barnes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137596109

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Dance’s Duet with the Camera by Telory D. Arendell,Ruth Barnes Pdf

Dance’s Duet with the Camera: Motion Pictures is a collection of essays written by various authors on the relationship between live dance and film. Chapters cover a range of topics that explore dance film, contemporary dance with film on stage, dance as an ideal medium to be captured by 3D images and videodance as kin to site-specific choreography. This book explores the ways in which early practitioners such as Loïe Fuller and Maya Deren began a conversation between media that has continued to evolve and yet still retains certain unanswered questions. Methodology for this conversation includes dance historical approaches as well as mechanical considerations. The camera is a partner, a disembodied portion of self that looks in order to reflect on, to mirror, or to presage movement. This conversation includes issues of sexuality, race, and mixed ability. Bodies and lenses share equal billing.

Author : Usha Iyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190938734

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Dancing Women by Usha Iyer Pdf

A new look at Indian film dance, this book engages with the display and mobilization of the female dancing body to propose new models for theorizing film dance and music more generally. Author Usha Iyer offers a new understanding of how female dancer-actors impact narratives and the music composed for them.

Author : Lúcia Nagib,Senior Lecturer in Media Studies Stefan Solomon,Stefan Solomon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780197621707

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The Moving Form of Film by Lúcia Nagib,Senior Lecturer in Media Studies Stefan Solomon,Stefan Solomon Pdf

The Moving Form of Film: Historicizing the Medium through Other Media charts the ways in which crossing borders between film and other arts and media can provide an encompassing, inclusive, and non-teleological understanding of film history. Evolutionary narratives of cinema have traditionally adopted the Second World War as a watershed that separates 'classical' Hollywood films from 'modern' European productions, a scheme that subjects the entire world to the cinematic history of two hegemonic centres. In turn, histories of film as a technological medium have focused on the specificity of cinema as it gradually separated from the other art and medial forms - theatre, dance, fairground spectacle, painting, literature, still photography and other pre-cinematic modes. Taking an ambitious step forward with relation to these approaches, this book focuses on the fluid quality of the film form by exploring an array of exciting and often neglected artistic expressions worldwide as they compare and interconnect films across temporal, geographical, and cultural borders. By observing the ebb and flow of film's contours within the bounds of other artistic and medial expressions, the chapters aspire to establish a flexible historical platform for the moving form of film, posited, from production to consumption, as a transforming and transformative medium.

Author : Colleen T. Dunagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190491369

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Consuming Dance by Colleen T. Dunagan Pdf

Whether advertising clothes or technology, dance is staple of advertising today. 'Consuming Dance' offers a clear history and analysis of dance in advertising and demonstrates the ways in which the form articulates with, informs, and reflects U.S. culture.

Author : Anne M. Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190222086

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Video as Method by Anne M. Harris Pdf

Perhaps the greatest strength of choosing video as a method for social research is its flexible and almost limitless potential for gathering, analyzing, writing up, and disseminating the research findings. Understanding the rich potential of video as both method and methodology is a process inextricably linked to epistemological, study design, analysis, and dissemination choices. As technology and media have evolved, video has become a primary tool of presenting information and ideas and a means of culture making. Video as Method provides researchers with a guide to understanding, designing, conducting, and disseminating video-based research, and the rapid proliferation of approaches, uses, and designs now available. In the face of large data sets, and the great range of types and uses of video as an effective research tool, many researchers struggle to know how best to represent both video-based methodologies and research findings. Anne Harris provides in-depth examples in each chapter, and guides readers step-by-step through the chapter topics in a methodical fashion that mirrors the research journey.

Author : Brynn Wein Shiovitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476634852

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The Body, the Dance and the Text by Brynn Wein Shiovitz Pdf

This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.