The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

Author: Helen Thomas

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2003-09-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780333724316

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This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.

The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory

Author: Helen Thomas

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1137487771

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This book takes its point of departure from the overwhelming interest in theories of the body and performativity in sociology and cultural studies in recent years. It explores a variety of ways of looking at dance as a social and artistic (bodily) practice as a means of generating insights into the politics of identity and difference as they are situated and traced through representations of the body and bodily practices. These issues are addressed through a series of case studies.

Meaning in Motion
Meaning in Motion

Author: Jane Desmond

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780822319429

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On dance and culture

Of the Presence of the Body
Of the Presence of the Body

Author: André Lepecki

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2004-03-24

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780819566126

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Writing at the dynamic intersection of dance and performance studies.

Bodies of the Text
Bodies of the Text

Author: Ellen W. Goellner

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780813521275

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Dance and literary studies have traditionally been at odds: dancers and dance critics have understood academic analysis to be overly invested in the mind at the expense of body signification; literary critics and theorists have seen dance studies as anti-theoretical, even anti-intellectual. Bodies of the Text is the first book-length study of the interconnections between the two arts and the body of writing about them. The essays, by scholar-critics of dance and literature, explore dances actual and fictional to offer powerful new insights into issues of gender, race, ethnicity, popular culture, feminist aesthetics, historical "embodiment," identity politics, and narrativity. The general introduction traces the genealogy of dance studies in the academy to suggest why critical and theoretical attention to dance--and dance's challenges to writing--is both compelling and overdue. A milestone in interdisciplinary studies, Bodies of the Text opens both its fields to new inquiry, new theoretical precision, and to new readers and writers.

Dance as Text
Dance as Text

Author: Mark Franko

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0199794014

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Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet of the late Renaissance and early baroque. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. He reveals the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance in the early modern.

Cultural Bodies
Cultural Bodies

Author: Helen Thomas

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0470776943

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Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. Breaks new ground in an area of study that continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences Draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments Constitutes an important step in developing two key areas of study, the body and ethnography, and the relationship between them Brings together an international and multi-disciplinary team of scholars

The Body
The Body

Author: Mike Featherstone

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1991-02

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780803984134

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This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies.

Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body
Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body

Author: Michael D. Giardina

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 1351970593

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The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport. This book brings together original insights on contemporary physical culture from key figures working in a variety of disciplines, offering a wealth of different theoretical and philosophical ways of engaging with the body while never losing site of the material form of the research act itself. Contributors spanning the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, communications, and sport studies highlight conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches to the body that include observant-participation, feminist ethnography, autoethnography, physical cultural studies, and phenomenology. They provide vivid case studies of embodied research on topics including basketball, boxing, cycling, dance, fashion modelling and virtual gaming. This international collection not only reflects on the most important recent developments in embodied research practices, but also looks forward to the continuing importance of the body as a focus for research and the possibilities this presents for studies of the active, moving body in physical culture and beyond. Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body: Theory, method and praxis is fascinating reading for all those interested in physical cultural studies, the sociology of sport and leisure, physical education or the body.

Choreographing Difference
Choreographing Difference

Author: Ann Cooper Albright

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0819569917

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The choreographies of Bill T. Jones, Cleveland Ballet Dancing Wheels, Zab Maboungou, David Dorfman, Marie Chouinard, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and others, have helped establish dance as a crucial discourse of the 90s. These dancers, Ann Cooper Albright argues, are asking the audience to see the body as a source of cultural identity — a physical presence that moves with and through its gendered, racial, and social meanings. Through her articulate and nuanced analysis of contemporary choreography, Albright shows how the dancing body shifts conventions of representation and provides a critical example of the dialectical relationship between cultures and the bodies that inhabit them. As a dancer, feminist, and philosopher, Albright turns to the material experience of bodies, not just the body as a figure or metaphor, to understand how cultural representation becomes embedded in the body. In arguing for the intelligence of bodies, Choreographing Difference is itself a testimonial, giving voice to some important political, moral, and artistic questions of our time. Ebook Edition Note: All images have been redacted.