The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen

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The Oxford Handbook of 
Dance and the Popular Screen
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		Introduction: Dance on Screen
PART I SCREENED HISTORIES
	1 An Australian in Paris: Techno-Choreographic Bohemianism in Moulin Rouge!
	2 A Different Kind of Ballet: Rereading Dorothy Arzner’s Dance, Girl, Dance
	3 Communities of Practice: Active and Affective Viewing of Early Social Dance on the Popular Screen
	4 Disciplining Black Swan, Animalizing Ambition
	5 Gene Kelly: The Original, Updated
	6 Appreciation, Appropriation, Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood History of Black Dance
	7 Hip-Hop in Hollywood: Encounter, Community, Resistance
PART II THE COMMERCIAL BIG SCREEN
	8 Dirty Dancing: Dance, Class, and Race in the Pursuit of Womanhood
	9 Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
	10 “It’s Sort of ‘Members Only’.”: Transgression and Body Politics in Save the Last Dance
	11 “The White Girl in the Middle”: The Performativity of Race, Class, and Gender in Step Up 2: The Streets
	12 Affect-ive Moves: Space, Violence, and the Body in RIZE’s Krump Dancing
	13 A Taste of Honey: Choreographing Mulatta in the Hollywood Dance Film
	14 “He’s Doing His Superman Thing Again”: Moving Bodies in The Matrix
PART III MUSIC VIDEO AND TELEVISUAL BODIES
	15 Girl Power, Real Politics: Dis/Respectability, Post-Raciality, and the Politics of Inclusion
	16 Denaturalizing Coco’s “Sexy” Hips: Contradictions and Reversals of the Dancing Body of a Chinese American Superstar in Mand
	17 Single Ladies, Plural: Racism, Scandal, and “Authenticity” within the Multiplication and Circulation of Online Dance Disco
	18 The Dance Factor: Hip-Hop, Spectacle, and Reality Television
	19 Defining Dance, Creating Commodity: The Rhetoric of So You Think You Can Dance
PART IV SCREENING NATIONHOOD
	20 Hatchets and Hairbrushes: Dance, Gender, and Improvisational Ingenuity in Cold War Western Musicals
	21 Some Dance Scenes from Cuban Cinema, 1959–2012
	22 “Shine Your Light on the World”: The Utopian Bodies of Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
	23 Of Snake Dances, Overseas Brides, and Miss World Pageants: Frolicking through Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice
PART V CYBER SCREENS
	24 Monstrous Belonging: Performing “Thriller” after 9/11
	25 Dancing “between the Break Beats”: Contemporary Indigenous Thought and Cultural Expression through Hip-Hop
	26 Dancing with Myself: Dance Central, Choreography, and Embodiment
PART VI CONCLUSION
	27 Values in Motion: Reflections on Popular Screen Dance
Index