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Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films (Paperback)
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Movies, Moves and Music - The Sonic World of Dance Films (Paperback)
Series: Genre, Music & Sound
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Over the last 40 years, while the musical film has faded from its
historical high-point to a more isolated and quirky phenomenon, the
dance film has displayed refulgent growth and surprising
resilience. A phenomena of modern movie-making, the dance film has
spawned profitable global enterprises (Billy Elliot), has fashioned
youthful angst as sociological voice (Saturday Night Fever,
Footloose and Dirty Dancing) and acted as a marker of post-modern
ironic camp (Strictly Ballroom). This modern genre has influenced
cinema as a whole in the ways bodies are made dimensional, in the
way rhythm and energy are communicated, and in the filmic capacity
to create narrative worlds without words. Emerging as a distinct
(sub)genre in the 1970s, dance film has been crafting its own
meta-narrative and aesthetic paradigms that, nonetheless, display
extraordinary variety. Ranging from the experimental, 'you are
there' sonic explorations of Robert Altman's The Company and the
brutal energy of David La Chappelle's Rize to the lighter
'backstage musical' form displayed in Centre Stage and Save the
Last Dance, this genre has garnered both commercial and artistic
success.Meanwhile, Bollywood has become a juggernaut, creating
transportable memory for diasporic Indian communities across the
world. This is an entire industry based on the 'dance number',
where films are pitched around the choreography, where the actors
are not expected to sing, but they must dance. This series of
essays investigates the relationship between movement and sound as
it is revealed, manipulated and crafted in the dance film genre. It
considers the role of all aspects of sound in the dance film,
including the dancer generated sounds inherent in Tap, Flamenco,
Irish Dance and Krumping. Drawing on significant post-War dance
films from around world, Movies, Moves and Music comprehensively
surveys this mainstream genre, where image and sound meet in a
crucial symbiosis.
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