The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies offers a full overview of the histories, practices, and critical and theoretical foundations of the rapidly changing landscape of screendance. Drawing on their practices, technologies, theories, and philosophies, scholars from the fields of dance, performance, visual art, cinema and media arts articulate the practice of screendance as an interdisciplinary, hybrid form that has yet to be correctly sited as an academic field worthy of critical investigation.
Each chapter discusses and reframe current issues, as a means of promoting and enriching dialogue within the wider community of dance and the moving image. Topics addressed embrace politics of the body; agency, race, and gender in screendance; the relationship of choreography to image; constructs of space and time; representation and effacement; production and curatorial practice; and other areas of intersecting disciplines.
The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies features newly-commissioned and original scholarship that will be essential reading for all those interested in the intersection of dance and the moving image, including film and video-makers, dance artists, screendance artists, academics and writers, producers, composers, as well as the wider interested public. It will become an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals in the field.
Preface
Douglas Rosenberg
Introduction
Douglas Rosenberg
HISTORIES
Chapter 1: Dance with Camera: A Curator's POV
Jenelle Porter
Chapter 2: Loïe Fuller's Serpentines and Poetics of Self-abnegation in the Era of Electrotechnics
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Chapter 3: Selective Histories: moving image from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first
Chirstinn Whyte
Chapter 4: Moto-bio-cine-event: Construction of Expressive Movement in Soviet Avant-garde Film
Ana Olenina
Chapter 5: Brazilian Videodance: A Possible Mapping
Leonel Brum
Translated by Cristiane Bouger
Chapter 6: Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa from Bombay Cinema to Reality TV
Pallabi Chakravorty
Chapter 7: Exposed to Time: Cross-Histories of Human Motion Visualization from Chrono- to Dynamophotography
Nicolás Salazar-Sutil and Sebastián Melo
Chapter 8: In the Blink of an Eye: Norman McLaren Between Dance and Animation
Alanna Thain
Chapter 9: An Interdisciplinary Reading of the Film Entr'Acte
Claudia Kappenberg
Chapter 10: Light, Shadow, Screendance: Catherine Galasso's Bring on the Lumière!
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Chapter 11: The Best Dance Is the Way People Die in Movies (or Gestures Toward a New Definition of "Screendance")
Roger Copeland
THEORIES
Chapter 12: Kinesthetic Empathy: Conditions for Viewing
Karen Wood
Chapter 13: Virtualizing Dance
Kim Vincs
Chapter 14: Sound as Choreographic Object: A Perceptual Approach to the Integration of Sound in Screendance
Jürgen Simpson
Chapter 15: Screendance as Enactment in Maya Deren's At Land: Enactive, Embodied, and Neurocinematic Considerations
Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen
Chapter 16: Corporeal Creations in Experimental Screendance: Resisting Socio-political Constructions of the Body
Sophie Walon
Chapter 17: Dancing in the City: Screens, Landscape, and Civic Phenomenology in the Screendance of Terrance Houle
Jessica Jacobson-Konefall
Chapter 18: Privileging Embodied Experience in Feminist Screendance?
Frances Hubbard
Chapter 19: Extending the Discourse of Screendance: Dance and New Media
Andrea Davidson
Chapter 20: Gadgets, Bodies, and Screens: Dance in Advertisements for New Technologies
Melissa Blanco Borelli
Chapter 21: Empire, Vision, and the Dancing Touch: Gendered Moving Arts on Postcolonial Indian Screens
Esha Niyogi De
Chapter 22: Behind the Screens: Race, Space, and Place in Saturday Night Fever
Sima Belmar
Chapter 23: Longing for Depth: The Frame of Screened Stages in the Screendance Spectacles of Busby Berkeley
Rachel Joseph
Chapter 24: Towards an Aesthetical Approach to Screendance
Susana Temperley
Translated by Silvina Szperling
PRACTICES
Chapter 25: Yvonne Rainer's Lives of Performers: an "undisciplined" encounter with the avant-garde
Erin Brannigan
Chapter 26: From Oakland Turfs to Harlem's Shake: Hood Dance on YouTube and Viral Antiblackness
Naomi Elizabeth Bragin
Chapter 27: The Virtual Body is Real! Phenomenological and Post-phenomenological Perspectives in Mediadance
Mirella Misi and Ludmila Pimental
Chapter 28: Interface: Jonah Bokaer & the Screen Inside
Michael Jay McClure
Chapter 29: Where is the Choreography? Who is the Choreographer? Alternate Approaches to Choreography through Editing
Priscilla Guy
Chapter 30: Real for Reel: Extending Corporeal Frontiers Through Screendance Editing
Marisa Hayes
Chapter 31: Scriptwriting Dance: The First Point of Integration for a Dance Screen Work
Tracie Mitchell
Chapter 32: Transcending Dimensions: Physical and Virtual Dancing Bodies
Sita Popat
Chapter 33: Can Rihanna Have Her Cake And Eat It Too?: A Schizophrenic Search for Resistance Within the Screened Spectacles of a Winin' Fatale
Adanna Jones
Chapter 34: A Rhizomatic Revolution?: Popular Dancing, YouTubing, and Exchange in Screendance
Naomi Jackson
Chapter 35: Resurrecting the Future: Body, Image, and Technology in the Work of Loïe Fuller
Ann Cooper Albright
Chapter 36: Bill Robinson and Shirley Temple Tap Past Jim Crow
Ann Murphy
Index
