Hollywood dance-ins and the reproduction of bodies /
"This book proposes that a figure who barely registers in film studies or dance studies offers valuable insight into ideas about "the body" and the reproductive labor that gives rise to images of bodies. The book is the first scholarly study of the dance-in, a dancer who executes a st...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book proposes that a figure who barely registers in film studies or dance studies offers valuable insight into ideas about "the body" and the reproductive labor that gives rise to images of bodies. The book is the first scholarly study of the dance-in, a dancer who executes a star's choreography as cameras are being focused and lights set. While they share similarities with doubles and stand-ins, dance-ins do not replace stars' bodies on screen and they often serve multiple unseen roles, including as choreographers' assistants and stars' coaches, making them vital to the creation and transmission of film choreography. Focusing on dance-ins in mid-twentieth century Hollywood, when film musicals and the studio system were at their height, the book exposes a racialized and gendered "corporeal ecosystem" that operated behind the scenes, propping up but concealed behind the seeming self-referentiality of white stars' dancing bodies"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197789704 0197789706 9780197789698 0197789692 9780197789681 0197789684 |