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2999 results in Dance

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  • DRJ volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / April 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 June 2021, pp. b1-b4
    Print publication:
    April 2021
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  • DRJ volume 53 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

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    Dance Research Journal / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / April 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 June 2021, pp. f1-f6
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    April 2021
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  • Colonial Rupture and Native Continuity in Indigenous Cultural Representations: Through Hawaiian Ancient Dance Kahiko

  • Mai Misaki
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / April 2021
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    02 June 2021, pp. 44-60
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    April 2021

  • This article discusses the role of colonial oppression in creating conflicting perspectives in the reproduction of dance as Indigenous cultural heritage. The debate on kahiko, the ancient Hawaiian dance, of which practice was severely controlled and then revived through the cultural renaissance, demonstrates that the radical deprivation of the practice has created multiple understandings of the dance among different practitioners. Of primary importance in these respects is the intergenerational divide within the dance community, manifest in the critical perspective of the post-renaissance variant of kahiko, which highlights the “continuity” of the practice through the colonial rupture.

  • Cautionary Contours: Joann Kealiinohomoku's Silhougraphs® and Dance Analysis in Black and White

  • Judith Hamera
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / April 2021
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    02 June 2021, pp. 23-43
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    April 2021

  • Joann Kealiinohomoku's Silhougraphs®, traces of the silhouettes of dancers, were her attempt to operationalize her cultural relativist commitments and create a new method of dance analysis. Silhougraphs illuminate underexamined scholarly presumptions, methods, and tools that both contributed to and paralleled the emergence of dance studies as a discipline. Silhougraphs are also a cautionary tale demonstrating the ways culturally sensitive research commitments and methods can unintentionally yet decisively reiterate tools and logics of racist typologies.

  • “You stole my work! And you stole it poorly!” Choreography, Copyright, and the Problem of Inexpert Iterations

  • K.E. Gover
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / April 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 June 2021, pp. 61-77
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    April 2021

  • Dance theorists and legal scholars argue that choreography is by nature ill-suited to the conceptual framework provided by copyright, even as there is widespread agreement that works of dance deserve the legal protection and cultural endorsement that its inclusion represents. I reexamine the factors that are often cited as barriers to choreography's suitability for copyright. I argue that choreography is better suited to the copyright regime than it appears, so long as we recognize that the artistic standard for substantial similarity should be different from the legal standard.

  • Invented Dances, Or, How Nigerian Musicians Sculpt the Body Politic

  • Dotun Ayobade
  • Journal:
    Dance Research Journal / Volume 53 / Issue 1 / April 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 June 2021, pp. 5-22
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    April 2021

  • Popular dances encapsulate the aliveness of Africa's young. Radiating an Africanist aesthetic of the cool, these moves enflesh popular music, saturating mass media platforms and everyday spaces with imageries of joyful transcendence. This essay understands scriptive dance fads as textual and choreographic calls for public embodiment. I explore how three Nigerian musicians, and their dances, have wielded scriptive prompts to elicit specific moved responses from dispersed, heterogenous, and transnational publics. Dance fads of this kind productively complicate musicological approaches that insist on divorcing contemporary African music cultures from the dancing bodies that they often conjure. Taken together, these movements enlist popular culture as a domain marked by telling contestations over musical ownership and embodied citizenship.

Hitchcock's Motifs
  • Michael Walker
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    Amsterdam University Press
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    05 February 2021
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    07 October 2005
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s films are renowned the world over, and a mountain of literature has detailed seemingly every facet of them. Yet remarkably few studies have solely focused on the recurring motifs in Hitchcock’s films. Michael Walker remedies this surprising gap in Hitchcock literature with an innovative and in-depth study of the sustained motifs and themes threaded through Hitchcock’s entire body of work. Combing through all fifty-two extant feature films and representative episodes from Hitchcock’s television series, Walker traces over forty motifs that emerge in recurring objects, settings, character-types, and events. Whether the loaded meaning of staircases, the symbolic status of keys and handbags, homoeroticism, guilt and confession, or the role of art, Walker analyzes such elements to reveal a complex web of cross-references in Hitchcock’s art. He also gives full attention to the broader social contexts in which the motifs and themes are played out, arguing that these interwoven elements add new and richer depths to Hitchcock’s oeuvre. An invaluable, encyclopedic resource for the scholar and fan, Hitchcock’s Motifs is a fascinating study of one of the best-known and most admired film directors in history.

European Cinema
  • Face to Face with Hollywood
  • Thomas Elsaesser
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    05 February 2021
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    22 June 2005
  • In the face of renewed competition from Hollywood since the early 1980s and the challenges posed to Europe’s national cinemas by the fall of the Wall in 1989, independent filmmaking in Europe has begun to re-invent itself. European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood re-assesses the different debates and presents a broader framework for understanding the forces at work since the 1960s. These include the interface of “world cinema” and the rise of Asian cinemas, the importance of the international film festival circuit, the role of television, as well as the changing aesthetics of auteur cinema. New audiences have different allegiances, and new technologies enable networks to reshape identities, but European cinema still has an important function in setting critical and creative agendas, even as its economic and institutional bases are in transition.

Ingmar Bergman
  • A Reference Guide
  • Birgitta Steene
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2021
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    03 November 2005
  • The films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman are renowned for their largely spare and stark aesthetic, an existential framework, and plots driven by a fascination with death and the moral torments of the human soul. Birgitta Steene offers here in Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide an essential and unparalleled resource on the life and work of Bergman. Plumbing the depths of these trademark Bergman themes, Steene traces as well the indelible mark he left on world cinema through his other cinematographic work and writings.

    Over the decades, Bergman's stature and image have evolved in fascinating ways - an iconoclast of the 1950s, a bourgeois traditionalist of the 1960s, and an icon in the 1980s. This exhaustive compendium considers each phase of his career, exploring his deep and vast oeuvre in all its controversy and complexity, and analyzes his intriguing and unique motifs such as his efforts to expose dead conventions and his portrayals of Woman as the archetype of humanity. As well as providing a detailed account of Bergman's life and chronicling his career as a filmmaker and theater director, including his work for television, Steene offers transcripts of some of the numerous interviews and conversations she conducted with Bergman. Writings by and about Bergman and a detailed chronological survey of his film and theatrical work completes this eminently readable and thoroughly researched volume. A wide-ranging and groundbreaking work of film history, Ingmar Bergman is the definitive reference for scholars of the Scandinavian master.

Audiovisions
  • Cinema and Television as Entr'Actes in History
  • Siegfried Zielinski
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    27 January 2021
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    15 December 2012
  • The production, distribution, and perception of moving images are undergoing a radical transformation. Ever-faster computers, digital technology, and microelectronic are joining forces to produce advanced audiovision - the media vanishing point of the 20th century. Very little will remain unchanged. The classic institutions for the mediation of film - cinema and television - are revealed to be no more than interludes in the broader history of the audiovisual media. This book interprets these changes not simply as a cultural loss but also as a challenge: the new audiovisions have to be confronted squarely to make strategic intervention possible. 'Audiovisions' provides a historical underpinning for this active approach. Spanning 100 years, from the end of the 19th to the end of the 20th century, it reconstructs the complex genesis of cinema and television as historically relative - and thus finite - cultural forms, focussing on the dynamics and tension in the interaction between the apparatus and its uses. The book is also a plea for staying power" in studies of cultural technology and technological culture of film. Essayistic in style it dispenses with complicated cross references and instead is structured around distinct historical phases. Montages of images and text provide supplemental information contrast and comment.

Harun Farocki
  • Working on the Sightlines
  • Edited by Thomas Elsaesser
  • Published by:
    Amsterdam University Press
    Published online:
    26 January 2021
    Print publication:
    09 June 2004
  • Filmmaker, film essayist, installation artist, writer: the Berlin artist Harun Farocki has devoted his life to the power of images. Over the thirty-plus years of his career, Farocki has explored not the images of life but rather the life of images that surrounds us in newspapers, cinema, books, television, and advertising. Harun Farocki examines, from different critical perspectives, his vast oeuvre, which includes three feature films, critical media pieces, children's television features, 'learning films' in the tradition of Brecht, and installation pieces. Interviews, a selection of Farocki's own writings, and an annotated filmography complete a valuable biography of this pioneering artist and his legendary career.

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