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Columbia University Press Dekalog 5 On Dogville 05
Book SynopsisOn Dogville is the result of the lively debates prompted by Lars von Trier's film amongst its wide and diverse public. The essays in the volume have been written by authors from across Europe interested in different theoretical approaches and perspectives, ranging from philosophy and ethics to film history, critical theory, gender and media studies, and linguistics. The volume presents the reader with a plurivocal account of the film's context and its relevance to the discussions on various topical issues in contemporary culture. Each chapter focuses on one or more aspects of the film, building on specific concepts and theoretical frames such as the Marxist paradigm of objectification, Girard's theory of violence, Deleuze's philosophy of film, the theological category of grace, the concept of integrity, Wittgenstein's reflections on 'seeing-as' and aspect change, and, finally, feminist critique to Jakobson's linguistic theories. While providing stimulating and at times diverging readin
£999.99
Columbia University Press New Tunisian Cinema
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLang's impressive study is a valuable and timely achievement. Through subtle and rich close readings of eight films released between 1986 and 2006, he examines how contemporary Tunisian filmmakers resisted authoritarianism in both the public and private spheres of their society and successfully forged a national cinema that sought to keep in sight the secular and modern vision of their country's founding intellectuals. -- Hakim Abderrezak, University of Minnesota Well written and well researched, this book draws on a variety of fields to offer clear readings of eight key films. The decoding of these films as allegories of political resistance is well argued and draws on an immense wealth of knowledge both theoretical and practical. -- Florence Martin, author of Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema Robert Lang's New Tunisian Cinema is a timely and impressive examination of some of the most politically engaged films made during the Ben Ali era. This is the book I and many others have been waiting for-it fills a long overdue need to approach Tunisian cinema with both historical accuracy and theoretical rigor. It deserves to be widely read. -- Nouri Gana, editor of The Making of the Tunisian Revolution New Tunisian Cinema offers penetrating readings of eight Tunisian films made between 1986 and 2006 that elaborate a mode of cultural resistance. The films are anchored in their social and political context, and the analyses take up the 'national question' through the filmmakers' vision of their society's problems. This original work enriches our understanding of the political and cultural history of Tunisia and sheds new light on the implications of a 'Revolution' that holds up a mirror to us. -- Kmar Bendana, University of La Manouba, Tunisia Carefully researched and documented, and backed by Lang's strong theoretical knowledge, this original contribution is an excellent addition to the "Columbia University Film and Culture Series". Choice Lang's study is erudite, well written, and compelling, and offers students of Arab cinemas a welcome set of inquiries to inspire further studies of the works and themes he addresses. -- Kamran Rastegar International Journal of Middle East Studies As the first monograph published in the US on Tunisian cinema, Lang's book fills a major gap in scholarship... This excellent study is accessible to students and enriching for scholars interested in North African studies. It will be sure to stimulate further scholarship on the rich production of Tunisian cinema. -- Mohammed Hirchi Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies An excellent introduction to the themes and filmmakers that make Tunisian cinema stand out. -- Eoin Bell-Games Film MattersTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. The Nation, the State, and the Cinema 2. "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986) 3. Laughter in the Dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Ferid Boughedir, 1990) 4. Sexual Allegories of National Identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992) 5. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994) 6. "It takes two of us to discover truth": Essaida (Mohamed Zran, 1996) 7. "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani, 2002) 8. Inventing the Postcolonial Nation/Constructing a Usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006) 9. "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break" Notes Filmography Glossary Bibliography Index
£90.00
Columbia University Press Film Dialogue
Book SynopsisFilm Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface, by Sarah Kozloff Introduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Genre 1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack 2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael 3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells 4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong 5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas Leitch Dialogue Auteurs 6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner 7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson 8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by Francois Thomas 9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Cultural Representation 10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe 11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung 12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn 13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna Peberdy Index
£70.40
Columbia University Press Film Dialogue
Book SynopsisFilm Dialogue is the first anthology in film studies devoted to the topic of language in cinema, bringing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss the aesthetic, narrative, and ideological dimensions of film speech.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface, by Sarah Kozloff Introduction: A Brief Primer for Film Dialogue Study, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Genre 1. The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo: Dialogue in Science Fiction Films, by Vivian Sobchack 2. Documenting Dialogue: Reshaping 'Reality' in Emile de Antonio's Point of Order, by Deborah A. Carmichael 3. Pronoun Troubles and Factual Conversations: Dialogue in Animated Films, by Paul Wells 4. Talking Teams: Dialogue and the Team Film Formula, by Jeremy Strong 5. You Talk Like a Character in a Book: Dialogue and Film Adaptation, by Thomas Leitch Dialogue Auteurs 6. Killing the Writer: Movie Dialogue Conventions and John Cassavetes, by Todd Berliner 7. The Film Dialogue of Howard Hawks, by Brian Wilson 8. Orson Welles' Trademark: Overlapping Film Dialogue, by Francois Thomas 9. On Misspeaking in the Films of Preston Sturges, by Jeff Jaeckle Dialogue and Cultural Representation 10. 'They Will Speak in Our Language': Indian Speech in Western Movies, by Edward Buscombe 11. From 'Me So Horny' to 'I'm So Ronery': Asian Images and Yellow Voices in American Cinema, by Hye Seung Chung 12. The Politics Speak: Performing Race From Sweetback to Foxy Brown, by Stephane Dunn 13. Male Sounds and Speech Affectations: Voicing Masculinity, by Donna Peberdy Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Pop Musical Sweat Tears and Tarnished Utopias
Book SynopsisAlberto Mira offers a new account of how pop music revolutionized the Hollywood musical. He shows that while the Hollywood system ceased producing large-scale traditional musicals, different pop strains—disco, rock ’n’ roll, doo-wop, glam, and hip-hop—renewed the genre, giving it a new life.Trade ReviewAlberto Mira’s timely volume superbly fills a gap in writing on the musical, focusing with originality, flair and thorough scholarship on a significant variant of the genre. He demonstrates how the Pop musical has taken the genre into new directions, for instance making it even more socially aware, revising its folk discourse, and exploring questions of sexual identity. In his analysis of the star qualities of Ann-Margret, the changing impact of Elvis Presley, re-appraisal of films like Bye Bye Birdie and The Rocky Horror Picture Show or, more generally, the way Pop musicals draw on and diversify the traditions of the classical musical, Mira ensures that this exciting volume will be essential reading for devotees as well as for scholars of the film musical, and the aesthetics, cultural and socio-political contexts of popular cinema. -- Peter William Evans, Queen Mary University of LondonWhile much has been written on the change in the musical's cinematic language in the postclassical period, the “pop musical” itself has not been sufficiently identified, theorized, or historicized. In The Pop Musical, Alberto Mira addresses this gap, insisting that the genre’s unique relationship with pop music plays a determining role in how these films make meaning. -- Desirée Garcia, author of The Movie MusicalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Hollywood Musical Is Dead. Long Live the Hollywood Musical!1. Hollywood and the Rise of Pop Music: The Age of Elvis2. Embracing Pop: Integrating the Pop Musical3. Looking Back: The Pop Musical and the PastConclusion: Qualified JoysNotesBibliographyIndex
£16.19
Columbia University Press Kill the Documentary
Book SynopsisIn Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. In place of the conventional documentary, she advocates for a “postrealist” cinema.Trade ReviewKill the Documentary is a brilliant, angry book. An honest book. A brave book. Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning filmmaker Jill Godmilow has written a stirring call to arms. -- Cynthia Close * Documentary Magazine *Creatively curious pages -- Ezra Winton * Cineaste *Jill Godmilow marshals a pantheon of hard-hitting, tough-minded films that refuse to be herded into the realist corral. Godmilow’s letter, or manifesto, like most manifestos, draws a line in the sand. Which side are you on becomes the question. Stay put and miss the point, or step on through to the other side and restore for yourself some of the nuance and subtlety that is foreign to the spirit of a manifesto. -- Bill Nichols, from the ForewordThis provocative and engaging book by acclaimed filmmaker Jill Godmilow raises important questions for anyone concerned about the future of political documentary. She maps out an original approach to “postrealist” documentary that champions moral engagement, social activism, aesthetic daring, historical grounding, and intersectional participation for bold twenty-first-century filmmaking. -- Deirdre Boyle, author of Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy PanhIn her captivating and original Kill the Documentary, filmmaker and critic Jill Godmilow offers a plea—in the form of a letter, which is a manifesto, and forty propositions, and a tool kit—for making postrealist nonfiction, for making film useful and fruitful. In her scathing critique of “great” documentaries, and her offering up of her own counter-canon, she insists that filmmakers and viewers can begin again by refusing the pedigree, pornography, and cultural imperialism of the real, and by supporting postrealist strategies: interventionist and interactive, performative and formal. Honestly, I don’t agree with all she says, or every one of the 144 films she honors, and that’s her urgent book’s point and purpose: I can and should make my own. -- Alexandra Juhasz, Brooklyn College, CUNYKill the Documentary is a provocative manifesto for rethinking the documentary. Godmilow provides a shield against the tear-soaked sentimentality and nostalgia of the Ken Burns style of packaging history. A new tool in the film teacher's kit, this book is useful beyond discussions of documentary. The passion of her prose is infectious—a welcome relief for student reading assignments. -- DeeDee Halleck, professor emerita, University of California, San DiegoThis book will be a gold mine for any instructors putting together an “Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking” syllabus or for cinematic autodidacts hungry to experiment with alternative modes of nonfictional filmmaking. -- Jaimie Baron * Film Quarterly *Herein lies the specificity and refreshing nonconformity of [this] book: it pushes the reader not only to see through the ideological premises of conventional formats, but also to delve into the multiple configurations that generate subversive experiences . . . [Godmilow's] persistent faith in the importance of developing critical awareness and in the agency of art to intervene into reality despite the omnipresent ‘capitalist realism’ in the global neoliberal society radiates a compelling force. -- Stefanie Baumann * Radical Philosophy *Table of ContentsManifestly Radical: A Foreword, by Bill NicholsAcknowledgmentsI Call This Book a LetterIntroduction—a Letter to Filmmakers1. Abandon the Conventional Documentary—Reject Realism as the Only Authentic Nonfiction Form2. Take Action—Make Useful Postrealist Films3. Forty Postrealist Strategies to Learn from and Borrow4. The ToolkitNotes BibliographyIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Radio for the Millions
Book SynopsisRadio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp.Trade ReviewRadio for the Millions is a fantastic work of radio history and South Asian historiography. It is meticulously researched, making use of an extensive range of archival collections across India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as oral-historical interviews with radio broadcasters. Focusing on radio as a medium and following radio waves across the national borders of South Asia, this book is an excellent contribution to the project of decolonizing sound studies and the project of denationalizing South Asian history. -- Amanda Weidman, author of Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South IndiaThis pathbreaking study shows how an attentiveness to the political and cultural potency of radio sounds reframes our understandings of histories in South Asia. Huacuja Alonso illuminates the relationship between aurality and orality, inviting us to lend an ear to voices and sounds on the radio waves that transcend and complicate borders, states, identities, and cultures in South Asia. -- Kama Maclean, University of HeidelbergThis ambitious and wide-ranging book takes seriously radio as a medium and music as a central form of sensorial engagement that defied borders and communal affiliations. Spanning India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from the colonial to the postcolonial periods, it explains how a subcontinental popular culture endured in spite of multiple partitions. -- Durba Ghosh, Cornell UniversityRadio for the Millions challenges neat historiographies often developed from and/or by state archives. Huacuja Alonso reminds us that the “oral” and “aural” are indeed messy and complicated yet necessary registers for understanding national, political turmoils. Hindi-Urdu broadcast radio has long been a site of both (state) nation-building and (community) place-making by listeners. Radio for the Millions is an exemplary study of why listening is such an integral component of history. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public AdvocacyIsabel Alonso provides a captivating history of radio that sits at the intersection of sound studies, cultural history, and the politics of nationalism in modern South Asia. In this virtuosic tale, we read about the policymakers, artists, singers, political figures, and poets who inhabited a broader transnational space in South Asia. . . This book will benefit an expansive community of readers, including academic communities in the disciplines of history and ethnomusicology and specifically readers interested in the cultural history of sound and music -- Pouya Nekouei * Not Even Past *Skillfully and imaginatively highlights the place of [radio] in the broader historiographies of nation-building, language, and the public sphere. -- Faiz Ullah * The Book Review (India) *An original and truly fascinating work. * H-Soz-Kult *A fascinating story of the history of radio in South Asia. -- Mehru Jaffer * The Citizen *The book makes an important contribution, especially in unearthing and resurrecting liminal voices, which make up what I would call a kind of archaeology of Southasian media. * Himal Southasian *Table of ContentsList of FiguresNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Tuning In to a Radio HistoryPart I: Radio News And World War II1. News on the AIR2. Netaji’s “Quisling Radio”Part II: Music And Postindependence Radio3. The “Sound Standards” of a New India4. Radio Ceylon, King of the AirwavesPart III: Dramatic Radio and the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War5. Radio Pakistan’s Seventeen Days of Drama6. The AIR Urdu Service’s Letters of LongingConclusion: Call to Me. Where Are You?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Radio for the Millions
Book SynopsisRadio for the Millions examines Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Isabel Huacuja Alonso argues that despite British, Indian, and Pakistani politicians’ efforts to usurp the medium for state purposes, radio largely escaped their grasp.Trade ReviewRadio for the Millions is a fantastic work of radio history and South Asian historiography. It is meticulously researched, making use of an extensive range of archival collections across India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as oral-historical interviews with radio broadcasters. Focusing on radio as a medium and following radio waves across the national borders of South Asia, this book is an excellent contribution to the project of decolonizing sound studies and the project of denationalizing South Asian history. -- Amanda Weidman, author of Brought to Life by the Voice: Playback Singing and Cultural Politics in South IndiaThis pathbreaking study shows how an attentiveness to the political and cultural potency of radio sounds reframes our understandings of histories in South Asia. Huacuja Alonso illuminates the relationship between aurality and orality, inviting us to lend an ear to voices and sounds on the radio waves that transcend and complicate borders, states, identities, and cultures in South Asia. -- Kama Maclean, University of HeidelbergThis ambitious and wide-ranging book takes seriously radio as a medium and music as a central form of sensorial engagement that defied borders and communal affiliations. Spanning India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka from the colonial to the postcolonial periods, it explains how a subcontinental popular culture endured in spite of multiple partitions. -- Durba Ghosh, Cornell UniversityRadio for the Millions challenges neat historiographies often developed from and/or by state archives. Huacuja Alonso reminds us that the “oral” and “aural” are indeed messy and complicated yet necessary registers for understanding national, political turmoils. Hindi-Urdu broadcast radio has long been a site of both (state) nation-building and (community) place-making by listeners. Radio for the Millions is an exemplary study of why listening is such an integral component of history. -- Dolores Inés Casillas, author of Sounds of Belonging: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio and Public AdvocacyIsabel Alonso provides a captivating history of radio that sits at the intersection of sound studies, cultural history, and the politics of nationalism in modern South Asia. In this virtuosic tale, we read about the policymakers, artists, singers, political figures, and poets who inhabited a broader transnational space in South Asia. . . This book will benefit an expansive community of readers, including academic communities in the disciplines of history and ethnomusicology and specifically readers interested in the cultural history of sound and music -- Pouya Nekouei * Not Even Past *Skillfully and imaginatively highlights the place of [radio] in the broader historiographies of nation-building, language, and the public sphere. -- Faiz Ullah * The Book Review (India) *An original and truly fascinating work. * H-Soz-Kult *A fascinating story of the history of radio in South Asia. -- Mehru Jaffer * The Citizen *The book makes an important contribution, especially in unearthing and resurrecting liminal voices, which make up what I would call a kind of archaeology of Southasian media. * Himal Southasian *Table of ContentsList of FiguresNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Tuning In to a Radio HistoryPart I: Radio News And World War II1. News on the AIR2. Netaji’s “Quisling Radio”Part II: Music And Postindependence Radio3. The “Sound Standards” of a New India4. Radio Ceylon, King of the AirwavesPart III: Dramatic Radio and the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War5. Radio Pakistan’s Seventeen Days of Drama6. The AIR Urdu Service’s Letters of LongingConclusion: Call to Me. Where Are You?AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£22.50
University of Illinois Press Ballroom Boogie Shimmy Sham Shake
Book SynopsisExamining social and popular dance forms from a variety of critical and cultural perspectivesTrade Review"Contributors to this important new collection offer scholarship that helps us to hear, feel, and imagine that transformation through the ongoing story of American social and popular dance practices."--Dance Research Journal“Malnig makes a significant contribution to the field of dance studies with this impressive, long-overdue investigation into the rich world of vernacular dance traditions. . . . Highly recommended.”--Choice"This extraordinary collection of essays brings to the forefront the transformative power of social and popular dance as well as its profound impact in shaping American culture and history over the past two centuries."--Dance Chronicle"This well-researched and balanced classroom tool looks inside genres like ragtime, dance marathons and krumping, and its iconic photographs will help readers further understand each style."--Dance Teacher“An incredibly needed volume for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and advisors in the field of dance. These essays afford compelling glimpses into communities dancing in particular places and times; the authors provide nuanced understandings of dancing as a means of forming identity and community.”--Ann Dils, coeditor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader“This invaluable volume covers an impressive range of genres, illuminating the liveliness and diversity of social dance. The book makes a unique contribution at a time when the field of dance studies is expanding to include forms other than Euro-American concert dance. An excellent book and a godsend for classroom use.”--Tricia Henry Young, director of the graduate program in American dance studies, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction / Julie Malnig 1SECTION 1 / HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS 1. Our National Poetry / The Afro-Chesapeake Inventions of American Dance 19 Jurretta Jordan Heckscher 2. The Civilizing of America's Ballrooms / The Revolutionary War to 1890 36 Elizabeth Aldrich 3. "Just Like Being at the Zoo" / Primitivity and Ragtime Dance 55 Nadine George-Graves 4. Apaches, Tangos, and Other Indecencies / Women, Dance, and New York Nightlife of the 1910s 72 Julie MalnigSECTION 2 / EVOLVING STYLES 5. Reality Dance / American Dance Marathons 93 Carol Martin 6. The Trianon and On / Reading Mass Social Dancing in the 1930s and 1940s in Alberta, Canada 109 Lisa Doolittle 7. Negotiating Compromise on a Burnished Wood Floor / Social Dancing at the Savoy 126 Karen Hubbard and Terry Monaghan 8. Rumba Then and Now / Quindembo 146 Yvonne Daniel 9. Embodying Music/Disciplining Dance / The mambo Body in Havana and New York City 165 David F. Garcia 10. Rocking Around the Clock / Teenage Dance Fads from 1955 to 1965 182 Tim Wall 11. Beyond the Hustle / 1970s Social Dancing, Discotheque Culture, and the Emergence of the Contemporary Club Dancer 199 Tim LawrenceSECTION 3 / THEATRICALIZATIONS OF SOCIAL DANCE FORMS 12. "A Thousand Raggy, Draggy Dances" / Social Dance in Broadway Musical Comedy in the 1920s 217 Barbara Cohen-Stratyner 13. From Bharata Natyam to Bop / Jack Cole's "Modern" Jazz Dance 234 Constance Valis Hill 14. From Busby Berkeley to Madonna / Music Video and Popular Dance 247 Sherril Dodds 15. The Dance Archaeology of Rennie Harris / Hip-Hop or Postmodern? 261 Halifu OsumareSECTION 4 / THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE 16. "C'mon to My House" / Underground House Dancing 285 Sally R. Sommer 17. Dancing Latin/Latin Dancing / Salsa and Dancesport 302 Juliet McMains 18. Louisiana Gumbo / Retention, Creolization, and Innovation in Contemporary Cajun and Zydeco Dance 323 May Gwin Waggoner 19. The Multiringed Cosmos of Krumping / Hip-Hop Dance at the Intersections of Battle, Media, and Spirit 337 Christina Zanfagna Contributors 355 Index 361
£87.55
University of Illinois Press Butoh Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
Book SynopsisTracing the international growth of a transformative Japanese dance formTrade Review"Translated poetically and mapped out with scientific precision . . . The book offers a pedagogical map for taking the time to suspend what we know, how we believe we've come to know it, and question what might happen, if we turn, spiral, slip, fall, slither, and sense our way 'back to the dance itself.'" --Dance Research Journal"Illuminates the myriad ways butoh and its Japanese aesthetic have influenced and been influenced by Western thought."--Pacific Affairs"Recommended."--Choice"An engaging, informative, and thought provoking text useful to anyone who is engaged with dance, somatics, transformation, or healing."--American Journal of Dance Therapy"There are moments of breathtaking beauty in this book--many of them--as Fraleigh shares her deep, personal engagement with butoh history and its current expressions. She expertly weaves philosophical reflections through engaging descriptions of dances she has seen to bring butoh to life for her readers as a global phenomenon that is transforming and healing western values."--Kimerer LaMothe, Ph.D., author of Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham is a tour-de-force brilliantly analyzing the cinematic depictions in a black Atlantic context. The full implications of the European depictions of these wonderful dancers is teased out through exhaustive attention to dancing techniques, cinematography and the two women’s autobiographical writings. A must read for all scholars of African American performance and cultural politics."--Alan Rice, author of Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic"Makes a significant contribution to the field. . . . The dance performances of these artists as recreated onscreen are interpreted and read through the lens of a dance critic who interrogates the dancing body which appropriated diasporic dance techniques over which the artist did not always control."--Charlene B. Regester, African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Body Eclectic
Book SynopsisA discussion of current practices in modern dance trainingTrade Review"Invaluable... A rich resource for personal investigation that not only encourages but also offers a generative framework for developing ones personal agency and artistry during challenging times."--Dance Research Journal "Rich with anecdotes and a treasure trove of citations and references, this book will give dance teachers, scholars, graduate students, and dancers a fascinating read."--Dance Magazine "Recommended."--Choice "A fascinating, timely portrait of a dance landscape that looks dramatically different from the one that existed when modern dance was in the earliest stages of professionalization."--Dance Chronicle "The book makes a welcome contribution to the field of dance studies and dance education, and it will be a valuable resource for Technique teachers in general, especially those working with dancers."--AMSAT NewsTable of ContentsContributors include Melanie Bales, Glenna Batson, Wendell Beavers, Veronica Dittman, Natalie Gilbert, Josh Monten, Martha Myers, and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol. Dance professionals interviewed include David Dorfman, Ralph Lemon, Bebe Miller, Tere O'Connor, and Shelley Washington
£23.39
University of Illinois Press Dancing across Borders
Book SynopsisOne of the first anthologies to focus on Mexican dance practices on both sides of the borderTrade Review"This stimulating collection expands our understanding of Mexican dance's significance by employing dance as a prism through which to view broader sociocultural issues and meaning. It sets a new standard for anthropological dance studies far beyond its U.S.-Mexico focus."--Daniel Sheehy, author of Mariachi Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction xiiiOlga Najera-Ramirez, Norma E. Cantu, and Brenda M. RomeroPart I: Contested Identities 1. Embodied Recuperations: Performance, Indigeneity, and Danza Azteca 3 Elisa Diana Huerta 2. The Zapopan Dancers: Reinventing an Indigenous Line of Descent 19 Renee de la Torre Castellanos 3. La Feria de Enero: Rethinking Gender in a Ritual Festival 48 Xochitl C. Chavez 4. Dancing to "Whittier Boulevard": Choreographing Social Identity 66 Marie "Keta" Miranda 5. Creating Agency and Identity in Danza Azteca 80 Maria Teresa CesenaPart II: Dimensions of Space and Place 6. The Semiotics of Land and Place: Matachines Dancing in Laredo, Texas 97 Norma E. Cantu 7. Dancing to the Heights: Performing Zapotec Identity, Aesthetics, and Religiosity 116 Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez 8. Traditional Dances of the Sierra Norte of Puebla: Identity and Gender Relations 138 Alberto Zarate Rosales 9. Por Que Estas Aqui?: Dancing through History, Identity, and the Politics of Place in Butoh Ritual Mexicano 148 Shakina Nayfack 10. El Baile de los Elotes: The Corn Dance 165 Jose Sanchez JimenezPart III: Trajectories of Tradition 11. The Matachines Danza as Intercultural Discourse 185 Brenda M. Romero 12. The Ballet Folklorico de Mexico and the Construction of the Mexican Nation through Dance 206 Sydney Hutchinson 13. Dancing Culture: A Personal Perspective on Folklorico 226 Rudy F. Garcia 14. The Mexican Danzon: Restrained Sensuality 237 Susan Cashion 15. Gender as a Theme in the Modern Dance Choreography of Barro Rojo 256 Nancy Lee Chalfa RuyterPart IV: Politics of Traditional and Innovation 16. Staging Authenticty: Theorizing the Development of Mexican Folklorico Dance 277 Olga Najera-Ramirez 17. Dance, Politics, and Cultural Tourism in Oaxaca's Guelgauetza 293 Chris Goerizen 18. Bailando para San Lorenzo: Nuevo Mexicano Popular Traditional Musics, Ritual Contexts, and Dancing during Bernalillo Fiesta Time 318 Peter J. Garcia 19. Folklorico in the United States: Cultural Preservation and Disillusion 335 Russell Rodriguez 20. Zapateado Afro-Chicana Fandango Style: Self-Reflective Moments in Zapateado 359 Martha Gonzalez Epilogue 379 Selected Bibliography on Folk, Ritual, and Social Dance in Greater Mexico 383 Works Cited 403 Contributors 431 Index 437
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MO - University of Illinois Press Butoh Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy
Book SynopsisTracing the international growth of a transformative Japanese dance formTrade Review"Translated poetically and mapped out with scientific precision . . . The book offers a pedagogical map for taking the time to suspend what we know, how we believe we've come to know it, and question what might happen, if we turn, spiral, slip, fall, slither, and sense our way 'back to the dance itself.'" --Dance Research Journal"Illuminates the myriad ways butoh and its Japanese aesthetic have influenced and been influenced by Western thought."--Pacific Affairs"Recommended."--Choice"An engaging, informative, and thought provoking text useful to anyone who is engaged with dance, somatics, transformation, or healing."--American Journal of Dance Therapy"There are moments of breathtaking beauty in this book--many of them--as Fraleigh shares her deep, personal engagement with butoh history and its current expressions. She expertly weaves philosophical reflections through engaging descriptions of dances she has seen to bring butoh to life for her readers as a global phenomenon that is transforming and healing western values."--Kimerer LaMothe, Ph.D., author of Nietzsche's Dancers: Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and the Revaluation of Christian Values
£22.49
University of Illinois Press Dancing Lives
Book SynopsisThe private and performance lives of five female dancers in Western dance historyTrade Review"Eliot . . . chronicles the lives of five female 'underdog' dancers . . . focusing on such details as their social and economic status, education, dance training and how they came to dance professionally. Amusing anecdotes abound. . . . Eliot's Dancing Lives shines a spotlight on the lives of five lesser-known dancers."--Dance Teacher "This accessible resource offers less experienced scholars of dance easy entry into studying dance as cultural history. Recommended."--Choice "She has enriched our understanding of dance history. . . . Recommended."--Library Journal"An engaging read for all those who enjoy the ephemeral qualities of dance."--ForeWord"Eliot’s writing is a labor of love, and her affection toward her subjects is inspiring."--Time Out Chicago"Eliot embarks on a wide-ranging meditation on each of five dancers, evoking the nature of her talent and artistry, her teachers, her repertory, her peers, the social and economic constraints under which she labored, the aesthetics of the period, and what she contributed to the choreography she danced and to the art in general. In each chapter a new world unfolds, opening doors to the dance history of the period, teasing out what it meant to be a dancer at distinct historical moments, and placing the performer--the female performer--at the center of an art that since the Romantic era has been to a considerable extent a mediation on the nature of femininity."--Lynn Garafola, professor of dance, Barnard College, and author of Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet"Uniting a uniquely embodied knowledge of the dancing body with historic social and aesthetic concerns, Karen Eliot's Dancing Lives creates a gallery of fresh and compelling portraits of women who dance. Eliot illuminates the hidden dimensions of their emotional and psychological lives in her focus on developments in ballet and modern dance since the eighteenth century. In writing that is clear, accessible, and gently affectionate, this dance historian and former member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company makes the persuasive argument that a close and careful look at the full lives of past dancers affords a unique view of world history, cultural evolutions, and historical dance events."--Janice Ross, author of Anna Halprin: Experience as DanceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Giovanna Baccelli 7 2. Adele Dumilatre 33 3. Tamara Karsavina 60 4. Moira Shearer 91 5. Catherine Kerr 119 Epilogue 143 Notes 149 Bibliography 173 Index 181 Illustrations follow page 90
£18.04
University of Illinois Press Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham
Book SynopsisJosephine Baker and Katherine Dunham were the two most acclaimed and commercially successful African American dancers of their era and among the first black women to enjoy international screen careers. Both also produced fascinating memoirs that provided vital insights into their artistic philosophies and choices. However, difficulties in accessing and categorizing their works on the screen and on the page have obscured their contributions to film and literature. Hannah Durkin investigates Baker and Dunham's films and writings to shed new light on their legacies as transatlantic artists and civil rights figures. Their trailblazing dancing and choreography reflected a belief that they could use film to confront racist assumptions while also imaginingwithin significant confinesnew aesthetic possibilities for black women. Their writings, meanwhile, revealed their creative process, engagement with criticism, and the ways each mediated cultural constructions of black women's identities. DurTrade Review"Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham is a tour-de-force brilliantly analyzing the cinematic depictions in a black Atlantic context. The full implications of the European depictions of these wonderful dancers is teased out through exhaustive attention to dancing techniques, cinematography and the two women’s autobiographical writings. A must read for all scholars of African American performance and cultural politics."--Alan Rice, author of Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic"Makes a significant contribution to the field. . . . The dance performances of these artists as recreated onscreen are interpreted and read through the lens of a dance critic who interrogates the dancing body which appropriated diasporic dance techniques over which the artist did not always control."--Charlene B. Regester, African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900–1960
£19.79
Indiana University Press Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFaces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts examine the dynamic relationship between individual representatives of tradition and the evolution of the traditions themselves. -- A. C. Shahriari, Kent State University * Choice *This notable volume, comprising five schol-arly articles illuminating different aspects or genres of folk performance traditions in China, is solidly grounded on meticulous research and thoughtful discourse. -- Joanna C. Lee * Journal of American Folklore *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts / Levi S. Gibbs1. Grasping Intangible Heritage and Reimagining Inner Mongolia: Folk-Artist Albums and a New Logic for Musical Representation in China / Charlotte D'Evelyn2. Chinese Singing Contests as Site of Negotiation Among Individuals and Traditions / Levi S. Gibbs3. Dynamic Inheritance: Representative Works and the Authoring of Tradition in Chinese Dance / Emily E. Wilcox4. Collecting Flowers, Defining a Genre: Zhang Yaxiong and the Anthology of Hua'er Folksongs / Sue Tuohy5. From Field Recordings to Ethnographically Informed CDs: Curating the Sounds of Yunnan for a Niche Foreign Market / Helen ReesGlossary of Chinese Terms and PhrasesIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press Rumba
Book SynopsisCuba's social and cultural complexity interpreted through the history and expressive power of rumba.Table of ContentsPREFACE1. Introduction: Portraits of a Dance2. Cuban Dance Culture3. Cuban People and Rumberos4. Performance of Rumba5. Symbolic Aspects of Rumba6. Social and Aesthetic Change in CubaAPPENDIX: LABANOTATIONNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
£15.19
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Flamenco Nation The Construction of Spanish National Identity
Book SynopsisHow did flamenco—a song and dance form associated with both a despised ethnic minority in Spain and a region frequently derided by Spaniards—become so inexorably tied to the country’s culture? Sandie Holguín focuses on the history of the form and how reactions to the performances transformed from disgust to reverance over the course of two centuries.Trade Review“Holguín’s well-written, witty, and scholarly book on flamenco and the shaping of modern Spanish national identity helps us understand the enigmatic tension between Spaniards’ often ambivalent attitudes toward flamenco and the art form’s enormous success beyond Iberia.” —Enrique Sanabria, University of New Mexico“As bracing as the clicking of castanets, this book plunges the reader into the history of flamenco and charts how this art form became quintessentially Spanish. Holguín demonstrates how music and dance take on nationalist overtones—and does so with such verve.” —Clinton Young, author of Music Theater and Popular Nationalism in Spain, 1880–1930
£35.62
Yale University Press Ballets Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance
Book SynopsisAkim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book features a collection of his provocative and influential writings, and provides a look at life inside the world of Russian ballet at a crucial era in its history.Trade Review"An exhilarating gathering of writings by a profoundly influential critic, and a striking, startling contribution to the historical record."—Simon Morrison, Princeton University -- Simon Morrison“An extremely important contribution to the literature on dance.”—Lynn Garafola, author of The Ballet Russes and Its World -- Lynn Garafola"This is a fantastic book. . . . The book is a must for anyone claiming a love of ballet. . . . [Volynsky's text] is always hugely entertaining and surprising, you will never look at a toeshoe, a tiara or a tendu . . . the same way again."—Toni Bentley, New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) -- Toni Bentley * New York Times Book Review *
£22.50
Yale University Press Dance
Book SynopsisA landmark examination of the art and artists inspired by American dance from 1830 to 1960
£38.00
Yale University Press Sunday. Pierre Droulers Choreographer
Book SynopsisThis bookcelebrates 40 years of work by Pierre Droulers (b. 1951), a pioneer of contemporary dance and choreographer of more than 30 works. A key figure in France and Belgium since the 1970s, Droulers was one of the first students to graduate from the Mundra School. In tune with the zeitgeist since the beginning of his career, Droulers has collaborated with singular and forward-thinking musicians, from jazz saxophonist Steve Lacy and beat poet Brion Gysin to Isreali group Minimal Compact and performance artist Winston Tong. In later years Droulers has developed fruitful artistic exchanges with visual artists, particularly Michel François and Ann Veronica Janssens. Drawing on archives for images and text, along with personal recollections and quotations, this monograph presents a three-dimensional narrative: the collisions of faces, landscapes, and words revealing Droulers's artistic world as one of obsessions and fantasies, of light and darkness. Distributed for Mercatorfonds
£23.75
Yale University Press Physics and Dance
Book SynopsisTrade Review“A unique study”—Nature“After reading this book, you will never again think of dance without the physics that enables it, and you will never again think of physics without the art that can express it.”—Neil deGrasse Tyson“Physics and Dance will be of interest to dancers, scientists, and a general public who wish to understand an ongoing relationship between the two.”—Twyla Tharp"This fascinating book blends physics depth and dance details with a seemingly impossible grace.”—Daniel Whiteson, author of We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe“Each [uses] her discipline to shed light on the other’s. . . . While science tends to be viewed as more serious than dance, their approach revolves around collapsing hierarchies, giving equal weight to both.”—Siobhan Burke, New York Times review of Emily Coates's 2017 performance Incarnations, based in part on their collaboration“Dancer and choreographer Coates and physicist Demers have created a brilliant exercise that is both challenging and rewarding. As a dancer I had never thought of myself as a small mass in relation to a larger one, namely, planet Earth, at least not in those terms. Part of the fun for the reader lies in figuring out, from page to page, which voice is speaking; both are erudite, meticulous, and convincing.”—Yvonne Rainer
£16.14
John Wiley & Sons Inc Illicit Drugs in the Environment Occurrence
Book SynopsisIllicit drugs are an emerging class of environmental contaminants and mass spectrometry is the technique of choice for their analysis.Trade Review"It provides analytical techniques, explains why illicit drugs - a new class of contaminants - have become an environmental issue, and offers instruction in how to estimate the amount of contaminants in the environment and addresses their behavior and potential toxic effects." (Book News, 1 August 2011) Table of ContentsPREFACE. CONTRIBUTORS. I INTRODUCTION. 1 ILLICIT DRUGS AND THE ENVIRONMENT (Christian G. Daughton). II THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ILLICIT DRUGS. 2 METABOLISM AND EXCRETION OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN HUMANS (Manuela Melis, Sara Castiglioni, and Ettore Zuccato). III MASS SPECTROMETRY IN ILLICIT DRUGS DETECTION AND MEASUREMENT – CURRENT AND NOVEL ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS. 3 ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR THE DETECTION OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WASTEWATERS AND SURFACE WATERS (Renzo Bagnati and Enrico Davoli). 4 WIDE-SCOPE SCREENING OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN URBAN WASTEWATER BY UHPLC-QTOF MS (Félix Hernádez, Juan V. Sancho, and Lubertus Bijlsma). 5 DETERMINATION OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE WATER CYCLE BY LC–ORBITRAP MS (Pim de Voogt, Erik Emke, Rick Helmus, Pavlos Panteliadis, and Jan A. van Leerdam). IVA MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: OCCURRENCE AND FATE IN WASTEWATER AND SURFACE WATER. 6 OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WASTEWATER IN SPAIN (Cristina Postigo, Miren López de Alda, and Damia Barcelò). 7 OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WASTEWATER AND SURFACE WATER IN ITALY (Sara Castiglioni and Ettore Zuccato). 8 OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN SURFACE WATER AND WASTEWATER IN THE UK (Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern). 9 ON THE FRONTIER: ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY AND THE OCCURRENCE OF ILLICIT DRUGS INTO SURFACE WATERS IN THE UNITED STATES (Tammy Jones-Lepp, David Alvarez, and Bommanna Loganathan). 10 MONITORING NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS IN SURFACE WATER IN NEBRASKA (USA) (Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, and Daniel D. Snow). IVB MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: ILLICIT DRUGS IN DRINKING WATER. 11 PRESENCE AND REMOVAL OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN CONVENTIONAL DRINKING WATER TREATMENT PLANTS (Maria Huerta-Fontela, Maria Teresa Galceran, and Francesc Ventura). 12 ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN WATER USING DIRECT-INJECTION LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY (Rebecca A. Trenholm and Shane A. Snyder). IVC MASS SPECTROMETRIC ANALYSIS OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: PRESENCE IN AIR AND SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER. 13 PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES IN URBAN AIRBORNE PARTICULATES (Angelo Cecinato and Catia Balducci). V APPLICATIONS OF ILLICIT DRUG ANALYSIS IN THE ENVIRONMENT. 14 ILLICIT DRUGS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: IMPLICATION FOR ECOTOXICOLOGY (Guido Domingo, Kristin Schirmer, Marcella Bracale, and Francesco Pomati). 15 DRUG ADDICTION–POTENTIAL OF A NEW APPROACH TO MONITORING DRUG CONSUMPTION (Norbert Frost). 16 ASSESSING ILLICIT DRUG CONSUMPTION BY WASTEWATER ANALYSIS: HISTORY, POTENTIAL, AND LIMITATION OF A NOVEL APPROACH (Ettore Zuccato and Sara Castiglioni). 17 COCAINE AND METABOLITES IN WASTEWATER AS A TOOL TO CALCULATE LOCAL AND NATIONAL COCAINE CONSUMPTION PREVALENCE IN BELGIUM (Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Lieven Bervoets, Philippe G. Jorens, Ronny Blust, Hugo Neels, and Adrian Covaci). 18 MEASUREMENT OF ILLICIT DRUG CONSUMPTION IN SMALL POPULATIONS: PROGNOSIS FOR NONINVASIVE DRUG TESTING OF STUDENT POPULATIONS (Deepika Panawennage, Sara Castiglioni, Ettore Zuccato, Enrico Davoli, and M. Paul Chiarelli). VI CONCLUSIONS. 19 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES (Roberto Fanelli). INDEX.
£80.96
John Wiley & Sons Inc The Fit and Healthy Dancer
Book SynopsisRegardless of the grace of their movement, dancers experience injuries more often than the lugs bucking heads on the rugby field or in the boxing ring.Trade Review"...This book is both interesting and informative....there is muchin the content to benefit any teacher of movement and dance, aswell as full-time students and professionals..." (Dance Teacher,Volume 48, Number 7) "...will undoubtedly be an excellent reference document for thedancer and the dance teacher..." (Physiotherapy in Sport)Table of ContentsBibliography of Editors and Authors xiii Contributors xv Foreword by Sir Peter Wright xvii Foreword by Cynthia Harvey xix Preface xxi Acknowledgements xxv Part I Energy and Food For Exercise And Fitness 1 Yiannis Koutedakis 1 Energy for Exercise and fitness 3 1 Summary 3 2 Introduction 4 3 Definition of Energy 4 4 Measurement of Energy 6 5 Metabolism 7 6 Energy Requirements 8 7 Energy Intakes 11 8 Calculation of Energy Intakes 12 9 Energy Balance 13 10 Production of Energy: the Human Energy Systems 15 11 The Effects of Fitness on the Human Energy Systems 20 12 Conclusions 21 13 Further Reading 22 2 Food for Exercise and Fitness 23 1 Summary 23 2 Introduction 24 3 Carbohydrates 25 4 Dietary Fibre 28 5 Fats 29 6 Proteins 32 7 Vitamins 34 8 Minerals 37 9 Water and Fluid Replacement 41 10 General Dietary Recommendations 44 11 Ergogenic Aids 45 12 Conclusions 47 13 Further Reading 48 Referencesto Part I 49 Part II Fit To Dance 51 Yiannis Koutedakis and N.C. Craig Sharp 3 Non-artistic Components of Dance Performance 53 1 Introduction 53 2 Biomechanical 53 3 Hereditary 55 4 Medical 56 5 Nutritional 57 6 Psychological 58 7 Technological 58 8 Physiological 59 9 Conclusions 63 10 Further Reading 64 4 Muscle and its Physiology 65 1 Introduction 65 2 Types of Muscle 66 3 Types of Skeletal Muscle Fibre 67 4 Motor Units and their Function 70 5 Muscle Force and Cross-sectional Area 73 6 The Structure of the Muscle 73 7 The Mechanism of Muscle Contraction 81 8 Types of Muscle Contraction 84 9 Control and Reflex 85 10 Conclusions 87 11 Further Reading 87 5 The Main Physical Fitness Components and Dance 89 1 Introduction 89 2 Aerobic (Cardiorespiratory) Fitness 92 3 Anaerobic Fitness 105 4 Muscular Strength (and Power) 114 5 Muscular Flexibility and Joint Mobility 128 6 Body Composition 141 7 Conclusions 152 8 Further Reading 153 6 Fitness and Training 155 1 Introduction 155 2 Physical Training 156 3 Warm-up and Cool-Down 162 4 Fatigue 171 5 Conclusions 183 6 Further Reading 183 Acknowledgement 184 References to Part II 185 Part III The Healthy Dancer 193 Introduction 195 7 Overtraining Burnout 197 Yinnis Koutedakis 1 Summary 197 2 Introduction 197 3 Definition of Terms 198 4 Factors Contributing to Overtraining 199 5 Diagnosis of Overtraining 203 6 Symptoms 203 7 Signs 201 8 Overtraining and the Immune System 206 9 Overtraining and Loss of Muscle Strength 207 10 Seasonal Variations in Overtraining 209 11 Diet and Overtraining 210 12 Prevention of Overtraining 210 13 Management of Overtraining 211 14 Conclusions 212 15 Further Reading 212 References 213 8 Asthma and Dance 215 Ray Carson 1 Summary 215 2 Introduction 215 3 Definition of Asthma 216 4 Diagnosis 216 5 Disease Mechanisms 218 6 Effects on Performance 221 7 Prevention 223 8 Treatment 226 9 Conclusions 228 10 Further Reading 228 References 228 9 Body Weight Control 231 Paul Pacy 1 Summary 231 2 Introduction 231 3 Elements of Body Weight—Body Fat 232 4 Are There Ideal Body Weights? 233 5 Factors Affecting Body Weight 234 6 The Role of Nutrition 236 7 Eating Habits and Body Weight Control 240 8 Body Weight After Retirement 246 9 Conclusions 247 10 Further Reading 247 Acknowledgment 247 References 248 10 Body Weight and Bone Density 249 Roger Wolman 1 Summary 249 2 Introduction 246 3 Menstrual Effects of Low Body Weight 250 4 Bone Density and Osteoporosis 254 5 Effects of Low Body Weight on the Skeleton 257 6 Reduced Bone Density 260 7 Management of Low Bone Density and Osteoporosis 260 8 Conclusions 262 9 Further Reading 263 References 263 11 Anatomical and Physiological Gender Differences 265 N. C Craig Sharp 1 Summary 265 2 Introduction 265 3 Gender Formation 266 4 Anatomical Aspects 267 5 Physiological Aspects 273 6 Conclusions 277 7 Further Reading 277 References 277 12 Children and Dance 279 Colin Boreham 1 Summary 279 2 Introduction 280 3 Growth, Maturation and Physical Performance 281 4 Individual Differences in Maturation 284 5 Health Benefits of Dance in Children 284 6 Training for Dance in Children 284 7 Temperature Regulation and Fluid Balance 289 8 Conclusions 290 9 Further Reading 290 References 291 13 Life After a Professional Dance Career 293 Susie Dinan 1 Summary 293 2 Introduction 294 3 International Recognition of the Needs of Dancers in Transition 295 4 The Dancer’s Dilemma 296 5 The Dancer’s Destiny 300 6 Current Initiatives in Dance Education 306 7 Support and Success for Dancers in Transition 307 8 Ageing and the Dancer 309 9 Conclusions 320 10 Further Reading 321 Acknowledgements 321 References 321 Glossary 323 Index 339
£63.60
LUP - University of Michigan Press Queer Nightlife
Book SynopsisFocuses on queer and trans people of colour who apprehend the risky medium of the night to explore, know, and stage their bodies, genders, and sexualities in the face of systemic and social negation.
£31.30
University of Michigan Press Dancing Opacity
£33.96
The University of Michigan Press Homebodies
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£31.30
The University of Michigan Press Bodies in Commotion
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking collection imagines disabled bodies as ""bodies in commotion"" - bodies that dance across artistic and discursive boundaries, challenging our understanding of both disability and performance.Trade ReviewA testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, this book demonstrates the enormous profitability of moving beyond disability as metaphor. . . . It's a lesson that many of our cultural institutions desperately need to learn." —Martin F. Norden, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
£26.55
The University of Michigan Press Performing the Greek Crisis
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£64.95
University of Michigan Press Dancing Opacity
£97.75
The University of Michigan Press Homebodies
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£88.30
The University of Michigan Press Performing America
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£31.30
The University of Michigan Press The Body in Crisis
Book SynopsisA major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalizationTable of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword by Cristina Fernandes Rosa Translators’ Note by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran Preface to the English Edition by Christine Greiner Introduction Part I: Networks of Destabilization Chapter 1: The Agents of the Crisis Chapter 2: Metaphorical Epidemics: The Appetite for DeterritorializationPart II: Operators of Resistance Chapter 3: Principles of Experience: The Profaning Aptitudes of the Organism Chapter 4: Circuits of ActivationPart III: Paradigms of Immunization Chapter 5: Systemic Crises Bibliography Notes
£56.95
University of California Press Overhearing Film Dialogue
Book SynopsisDiscusses dozens of classic and contemporary films ranging from "Bringing Up Baby" to "Terms of Endearment", from "Stagecoach" to "Reservoir Dogs". This book studies the use of dialogue in American film. It shows why dialogue has been neglected in the analysis of narrative film.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Study of Filmic Speech PART ONE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS 1. The Functions of Dialogue in Narrative Film 2. Structural and Stylistic Variables 3· Integration PART TWO DIALOGUE AND GENRE 4· Verbal Frontiers: Dialogue in Westerns 5· Word Play: Dialogue in Screwball Comedies 6. Words as Weapons: Dialogue in Gangster Films 7· Misunderstandings: Dialogue in Melodramas Conclusion Notes Select Filmography Bibliography Index
£24.30
University of California Press The Dark Mirror German Cinema Between Hitler and
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The text examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s.Trade Review"Lutz Koepnick's The Dark Mirror provides one of the finest, most compelling and suggestive accounts to date of the multiple locations of German cinema between Hitler and Hollywood. Charting the shifting relationships between institutional contexts and individual acts of reception, Koepnick persuasively shows how the German cinema and its filmmakers-both in exile and in Nazi Germany-contributed to a fragile, stratified, indeed, "nonsynchronous" public sphere."-Patrice Petro, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism and Film History "Lutz Koepnick's brilliant study debunks the received wisdom concerning Nazi German and Hollywood film of the 1930s and 40s. Using detailed analyses of 8 films, with special focus on sound and music, he insists upon the disjointed contexts and uneven relationships of American and German filmmaking. Historically nuanced and theoretically savvy, this remarkable book offers something for everyone: Americanists, Germanists, historians, students of cinema sound and music, those interested in debates between art and popular forms, and European and Hollywood production."-Caryl Flinn, author of Strains of UtopiaTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dark Mirror PART 1: HOLLYWOOD in BERLIN, 1933--1939 Chapter 1 Sounds of Silence: Nazi Cinema and the Quest for a National Culture Industry Chapter 2 Incorporating the Underground: Curtis Bernhardt's The Tunnel Chapter 3 Engendering Mass Culture: Zarah Leander and the Economy of Desire Chapter 4 Siegfried Rides Again: Nazi Westerns and Modernity PART 2: BERLIN in HOLLYWOOD, 1939--1955 Chapter 5 Wagner at Warner's: German Sounds and Hollywood Studio Visions Chapter 6 Berlin Noir: Robert Siodmak's Hollywood Chapter 7 Pianos, Priests, and Popular Culture: Sirk, Lang, and the Legacy of American Populism Chapter 8 Isolde Resurrected: Curtis Bernhardt's Interrupted Melody Epilogue: "Talking about Germany" Notes Index
£26.10
University of California Press Chanteuse in the City
Book SynopsisPresents a genealogy of realist performance through analysis of the music hall careers and film roles of Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Frehel, and Damia. This book offers a fresh interpretation of 1930s French cinema, emphasizing its love affair with popular song and its close connections to the music hall and the cafe-concert.Trade Review"Conway's entirely original research is well structured and clearly written, imparts expert readings, and is strengthened by historical groundedness. This is an extremely important book." - Christopher Faulkner, author of The Social Cinema of Jean Renoir; "Conway's study offers fresh, challenging perspectives on French film history, on women in French cinema, and on the relationship between film of the 1930s and the city of Paris." - Judith Mayne, author of Cinema and Spectatorship"
£27.00
University of California Press The Way Hollywood Tells It
Book SynopsisHollywood moviemaking is one of the constants of American life, but how much has it changed since the glory days of the big studios? This book argues that the principles of visual storytelling created in the studio era are alive and well.Trade Review"David Bordwell is our best writer on the cinema. He is deeply informed about films, he loves them, and he writes about them with a clarity and perception that makes the prose itself a joy to read. Because he sees movies so freshly and deeply he isn't deceived by the usual categories and finds excellence and experiment in unexpected places." - Roger Ebert "There is no shortage of scholarly literature on contemporary Hollywood, but none of it lives up to the standards set by Bordwell here. No one else has this range, depth, sophistication or authority. More remarkable still, Bordwell pulls this off with remarkable lightness of touch." - Murray Smith, University of Kent"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Blockbuster part i: a real story 1. Continuing Tradition, by Any Means Necessary 2. Pushing the Premises 3. Subjective Stories and Network Narratives 4. A Certain Amount of Plot: Tentpoles, Locomotives, Blockbusters, Megapictures, and the Action Movie part ii: a stylish style 1. Intensified Continuity: Four Dimensions 2. Some Likely Sources 3. Style, Plain and Fancy 4. What's Missing? Appendix: A Hollywood Timeline, 1960--2004 Bradley Schauer and David Bordwell Notes Index
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University of California Press Agnes Varda between Film Photography and Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"DeRoo’s work is a welcome and significant contribution to scholarship on a still too-neglected filmmaker and has much to offer those wanting an introduction to Varda and key issues animating critical reception of her films. The book is a well-researched, accessible, and timely addition to expanding scholarship on Varda as a pioneering and dynamic French filmmaker whose multifaceted oeuvre is central to ongoing and urgent debates about feminist film practice, filmmaking as an intermedia art form, and the ethics and aesthetics of documentary practice." * H-France *“DeRoo’s nuanced approach yields altogether new understandings of key works in Varda’s oeuvre. . .the readings in Agnès Varda: Between Film, Photography, and Art reveal both the breadth and depth of Varda’s artistic sophistication and political acumen.” * ASAP/Journal *"DeRoo’s book provides a yet untold counter-reading of Varda’s works. Her interpretations are acutely attentive, acknowledging the many sites of emotional, generic, aesthetic, and political complexity that arise as a result of Varda’s use of multimedia." * Women in French Studies *"Rebecca DeRoo’s Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art, which takes as its central problem the intermediality and intertextuality of Varda’s work in the context of history, society, and feminism, is, then, to be greeted with great interest." * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *"Quietly visionary in the way it deconstructs and reconstructs readings of Varda, DeRoo’s book enacts its own kind of cinematic labour, offering interpretive space for an understanding of Varda as a deeply politicised, strategically canny and immensely generous interlocutor with the people and the places that she filmed." * French Screen Studies *"Debunking the image of an apolitical Varda and reframing her place in the history of French film, DeRoo demonstrates convincingly that the aesthetic and the political are inseparably enmeshed. . . .This deftly argued and engagingly written book is a must for researchers interested in Varda and in French cinema more widely. Making a brilliant contribution to the burgeoning field of intermediality studies, it will also prove a most welcome tool for teaching purposes." * French Studies: A Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Reinterpreting Varda: The Mother of the New Wave Reframes Its Histories 2. Complicating Neorealism and the New Wave: La Pointe Courte 3. Filmic and Feminist Strategies: Questioning Ideals of Happiness in Le Bonheur 4. Reconsidering Contradictions: Feminist Politics and the Musical Genre in L’une chante, l’autre pas 5. The Limits of Documentary: Identity and Urban Transformation in Daguerréotypes 6. Melancholy and Merchandise: Documenting and Displaying Widowhood in L’île et elle 7. Varda Now: Autobiography, Memory, and Retrospective Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Agnes Varda between Film Photography and Art
Book SynopsisTrade Review"DeRoo’s work is a welcome and significant contribution to scholarship on a still too-neglected filmmaker and has much to offer those wanting an introduction to Varda and key issues animating critical reception of her films. The book is a well-researched, accessible, and timely addition to expanding scholarship on Varda as a pioneering and dynamic French filmmaker whose multifaceted oeuvre is central to ongoing and urgent debates about feminist film practice, filmmaking as an intermedia art form, and the ethics and aesthetics of documentary practice." * H-France *“DeRoo’s nuanced approach yields altogether new understandings of key works in Varda’s oeuvre. . .the readings in Agnès Varda: Between Film, Photography, and Art reveal both the breadth and depth of Varda’s artistic sophistication and political acumen.” * ASAP/Journal *"DeRoo’s book provides a yet untold counter-reading of Varda’s works. Her interpretations are acutely attentive, acknowledging the many sites of emotional, generic, aesthetic, and political complexity that arise as a result of Varda’s use of multimedia." * Women in French Studies *"Rebecca DeRoo’s Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art, which takes as its central problem the intermediality and intertextuality of Varda’s work in the context of history, society, and feminism, is, then, to be greeted with great interest." * Journal for Cinema and Media Studies *"Quietly visionary in the way it deconstructs and reconstructs readings of Varda, DeRoo’s book enacts its own kind of cinematic labour, offering interpretive space for an understanding of Varda as a deeply politicised, strategically canny and immensely generous interlocutor with the people and the places that she filmed." * French Screen Studies *"Debunking the image of an apolitical Varda and reframing her place in the history of French film, DeRoo demonstrates convincingly that the aesthetic and the political are inseparably enmeshed. . . .This deftly argued and engagingly written book is a must for researchers interested in Varda and in French cinema more widely. Making a brilliant contribution to the burgeoning field of intermediality studies, it will also prove a most welcome tool for teaching purposes." * French Studies: A Quarterly Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Reinterpreting Varda: The Mother of the New Wave Reframes Its Histories 2. Complicating Neorealism and the New Wave: La Pointe Courte 3. Filmic and Feminist Strategies: Questioning Ideals of Happiness in Le Bonheur 4. Reconsidering Contradictions: Feminist Politics and the Musical Genre in L’une chante, l’autre pas 5. The Limits of Documentary: Identity and Urban Transformation in Daguerréotypes 6. Melancholy and Merchandise: Documenting and Displaying Widowhood in L’île et elle 7. Varda Now: Autobiography, Memory, and Retrospective Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
Harvard University Press The Emergence of Cinematic Time
Book SynopsisIn a work that captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity.Trade ReviewMary Ann Doane has written an ambitious and highly original work, relating film studies and the understanding of the basic apparatus of cinema to a broad cultural description of temporality in the late modern (late 19th and early 20th centuries) period. This is a new and exciting contribution to intellectual discourse about modernity, time and, especially, cinema. Its original cross-disciplinary argument should attract readers from many fields and at many levels. Theory here takes on history and yields a strong new approach to questions about the role cinema plays in culture. -- Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History and Film Studies, University of ChicagoThe Emergence of Cinematic Time is without question a significant and original contribution to the field of Film Studies. Its primary objective is to advance a scholarly argument about the ‘representability’ of cinematic time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More than this, it aims to clarify the status of photography and film in discourses and disciplines concerned with temporality and contingency. And it does so precisely by focusing on fields whose relation to the cinema is not immediately self-evident, such as thermodynamics, physiology, statistics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Mary Ann Doane is without question one of Film Studies’ finest scholars and The Emergence of Cinematic Time does justice to her reputation and to the highest standards of the field. -- Patrice Petro, Professor of Film Studies, University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeTable of Contents1. The Representability of Time 2. Temporality, Storage, Legibility: Freud, Marey, and the Cinema 3. The Afterimage, the Index, and the Accessibility of the Present 4. Temporal Irreversibility and the Logic of Statistics 5. Dead Time, or the Concept of the Event 6. Zeno's Paradox: The Emergence of Cinematic Time 7. The Instant and the Archive Notes Bibliography Index
£33.11
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies The Culture of Kitharoidia
Book SynopsisThis book, the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode, traverses a range of poetic and prose texts, iconography, and inscriptions. Power offers a nuanced account of aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the role of the songmakers in the popular imagination.
£15.15
Harvard University Press Babel and Babylon
Book SynopsisFocusing on exemplary moments in the American silent era, Hansen explains how the concept of the spectator evolved as a crucial part of the classical Hollywood paradigm—as one of the new industry’s strategies to integrate ethnically, socially, and sexually differentiated audiences in a modern culture of consumption.Trade ReviewBabel and Babylon is a far-reaching book that leads us to new questions about history and theory. It amply proves that early cinema can be one of the most intriguing and productive domains of film study today. -- Dana Polan * Film Criticism *Hansen’s expansive, detailed, and exceptionally erudite study assesses key instances when cinema spectatorship opened up the possibility of articulating the contradictions of female experience. -- Constance Balides * Signs *A bold and strikingly original exploration… Hansen has produced a work that has revolutionized the concept of spectatorship in American silent film and that will be an essential tool for historians and film scholars alike. -- Leslie Fishbein * American Historical Review *An innovative look at the role and impact of class and gender, Hansen’s work significantly realigns many of the issues that have traditionally dominated the study of American silent film. -- Edward D. C. Campbell, Jr. * Journal of American History *A brilliant study of silent cinema, characterized by meticulous historical scholarship and rigorous and illuminating textual analyses… A work of the first importance in the wider debates about the nature of cultural production and consumption and about texts and reception… This book is a model of what cultural studies ought to be. -- Richard Dyer, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cinema Spectatorship and Public Life PART I: Rebuilding the Tower of Babel: The Emergence of Spectatorship 1. A Cinema in Search of a Spectator: Film-Viewer Relations before Hollywood 2. Early Audiences: Myths and Models 3. Chameleon and Catalyst: The Cinema as an Alternative Public Sphere PART II: Babel in Babylon: D. W. Grffith's Intolerance (1916) 4. Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition 5. "A Radiant Crazy-Quilt": Patterns of Narration and Address 6. Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History 7. Film History, Archaeology Universal Language 8. Hieroglyphics, Figurations of Writing 9. Riddles of Maternity 10. Crisis of Femininity, Fantasies of Rescue PART III: The Return of Babylon: Rudolph Valentino and Female Spectatorship (1921-1926) 11. Male Star, Female Fans 12. Patterns of Vision, Scenarios of Identification Notes Illustration Credits Index
£34.81
Harvard University, Asia Center Powers of the Real
Book SynopsisPowers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the age of the mass society in Japan.
£39.06
Harvard University, Asia Center Powers of the Real
Book SynopsisPowers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the “age of the mass society” in Japan.
£22.46
Harvard University Press Republic of Images History of French Filmmaking
Book SynopsisRepublic of Images traces the evolution of French filmmaking from 1895the year of the debut of the Cinematographe in Paristo the present day. Alan Williams offers a unique synthesis of history, biography, aesthetics and film theory. He captures the formal and stylistic developments of film in France over nearly one hundred years.Trade ReviewThe history of French cinema is the history of cinema. -- Nestor AlmendrosTable of ContentsA Note on Film Titles and Dates Introduction Part I: French Cinema Dominates the World Market 1. The Cinema Before Cinema 2. An Industry Begins 3. Growth and Diversification Part II: The Golden Age of the Silent Film 4. Decline and Mutation 5. The Mental and the Physical 6. The Commercial and the Esoteric Part III: The Golden Age of the Sound Cinema 7. An Unexpected Upheaval 8. Art and Entertainment in the Sound Film 9. Politics, Poetics, and the Cinema Part IV: A New Kind of Cinema 10. War and Occupation 11. Liberation-Change and Continuity 12. An Alternative Film Culture Part V: The Nouvelle Vague and After 13. Fourth Wave 14. Filmmaking at the Margins 15. Winds of Change Notes Bibliography Index
£37.36
Harvard University Press Visions of the Past
Book SynopsisRosenstone investigates how a visual medium, subject to conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Employing such films as Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers issues like the rapport between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth.Trade ReviewIf you're in search of a thoughtful overview of film and history as rival routes to the past, check out the essays collected in Visions of the Past...Rosenstone nicely reverses the assumption that history exists only on paper, approved and stamped by historians. -- Carlin Romano * Chicago Tribune *[A] fascinating analysis of the traditional and nontraditional historical film...This is solid scholarship written in a manner that makes it accessible for a wide range of readers. * Choice *The pieces represent work over a wide time span and demonstrate Rosenstone's evolving attitude toward the historical movie...The author knows of his subject from various perspectives...[and] presents his arguments simply and clearly, without drowning the reader in jargon or obtuse references. Well recommended. * Library Journal *In these essays, Rosenstone writes with the fervor of the convert...urging historians to admit that film can often do what books can't...Rosenstone is really rooting for modernist or post-modern cinema--the likes of Alex Cox, Chris Marker and Trinh T. Minh-ha--as the only adequate chroniclers of our fractured sense of the past. * Sight and Sound *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Personal, Professional, and (a Little) Theoretical PART 1: HISTORY IN IMAGES 1. History in Images / History in Words: Reflections on the Possibility of Really Putting History onto Film 2. The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a Postliterate Age PART 2: THE HISTORICAL FILM 3. Reds as History 4.The Good Fight: History, Memory, Documentary 5. JFK: Historical Fact / Historical Film 6.Walker: The Dramatic Film as (Postmodern) History 7.Sans Soleil: The Documentary as (Visionary) Truth PART 3: THE FUTURE OF THE PAST 8. Re-visioning History: Contemporary Filmmakers and the Construction of the Past 9.Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History 10. What You Think about When You Think about Writing a Book on History and Film Notes Sources Acknowledgments Index
£30.56
Princeton University Press Shell Shock Cinema
Book SynopsisExplores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. This title exposes how German film gave expression to the loss and acute grief that lay behind Weimar's sleek facade.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2010 Limina Award for Best International Film Studies Book, XVII Udine Film Forum, Udine, Italy Winner of the 2010 DAAD Book Prize, German Studies Association Winner of the 2008-9 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 "This long-awaited book by one of the leading experts on German cinema is a landmark in film studies... Clearly written and beautifully produced with ample illustrations, impressive notes, and a useful filmography of Weimar DVDs, the book is a pleasure to read."--Choice "One of Kaes's greatest strengths is his ability to speak to multiple audiences. His expert analysis is sure to appeal to students of film studies, but his interpretations are also accessible to readers with a limited knowledge of Weimar cinema. Accordingly, this book will interest scholars and students in the fields of German studies, film studies, and cultural history. Anton Kaes has long been recognized as a leading scholar of Weimar cinema and German culture, and Shell Shock Cinema represents another important contribution to these fields."--Brian K. Feltman, H-Net Reviews "A combination of intensive genre analysis, well-observed contemporary cultural and psychological contextualization, and evocative cinematographic observation makes Shell Shock Cinema a splendid, even exemplary, cultural history that goes well beyond the bounds of previous studies. It is a wonderful read."--Peter Fritzsche, Modernism/Modernity "Kaes's study represents a major departure from earlier approaches. Drawing on a growing body of work on trauma, the history of psychiatry, and World War I, he places this crucial chapter of modern cultural history within an entirely new analytic framework."--Andreas Killen, H-Madness "The book is exceptionally readable and largely free of specialized jargon; it will be of interest on that basis to academics and non-academics alike... Shell Shock Cinema is ... an outstanding book that will be of considerable value to students and scholars."--Adam C. Stanley, Canadian Journal of History "Shell Shock Cinema posits a complex and convincing model of the fraught relationship between historical violence and representation, as well as a unique perspective on the legacies of war."--Scott Spector, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIllustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The War at Home 7 The Wounded Soldier 8 The Spirit of 1914 16 Film and Nation 20 The Battle of Images 25 A Medium for Deception 29 The New Empire 34 Mental Breakdowns 37 Chapter 2: Tales from the Asylum 45 War Neurotics 46 Recovering the Past 49 Phantoms and Freaks 55 From Dr. Charcot to Dr. Caligari 63 Madness as Resistance 71 The Hitler Connection 75 Shattered Space 81 Chapter 3: The Return of the Undead 87 The Lost Generation 88 Mass Death 93 Dracula Revisited 98 A Community under Siege 108 Hysteria on the Home Front 113 The Allure of the Occult 120 The Work of Mourning 127 Chapter 4: Myth, Murder, and Revenge 131 The National Project 132 Posing for Germany 135 The Will to Form 141 The Fallen Hero 145 Excursus: Lang in World War I 151 The Sacred Battle 153 The End of Violence 157 Chapter 5: The Industrial Battlefield 167 Rise of the Machines 168 Moloch War 175 Lang's America 181 The Hunger for Religion 186 The Workers' Revolt 193 Destruction and Regeneration 200 Aftershocks 205 Conclusion 211 Notes 217 Weimar Cinema on DVD 251 Bibliography 267 Shell Shock and Trauma Theory 267 World War I and the Weimar Republic 272 Weimar Film History 278 Films Discussed 283 Index 299
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