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Movies, Moves and Music
. Ed(S): Fogarty, Mary; Evans, Mark
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Hardback. This volume investigates the relationship between movement and sound as it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. Editor(s): Fogarty, Mary; Evans, Mark. Series: Genre, Music & Sound. Num Pages: 276 pages, 46 figures. BIC Classification: APFA; ASD; AV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 26. Weight in Grams: 580.
Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. It has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words. ... Read more
Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising resilience. It has spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever, Footloose and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity to create narrative worlds without words. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Genre, Music & Sound
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781794449
SKU
V9781781794449
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About . Ed(S): Fogarty, Mary; Evans, Mark
Mark Evans is a professor in and head of the School of Communication at the University of Technology, Sydney. Mary Fogarty is Assistant Professor of Dance at York University, Canada.
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