Автор: Elia, Nada Название: Trances, Dances and Vociferations ISBN: 0815338422 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815338420 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Josephine 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 imagining—within significant confines—new 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. Durkin pays particular attention to the ways dancing bodies function as ever-changing signifiers and de-stabilizing transmitters of cultural identity. In addition, she offers an overdue appraisal of Baker and Dunham's places in cinematic and literary history.
Автор: Patrick Kindig Название: Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity ISBN: 0807178519 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807178515 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5016.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of mass culture. Patrick Kindig's Fascination, however, tells a different story, showing that many fin-de-si?cle Americans were in fact concerned about (and intrigued by) the modern world's ability to attract and fix attention in quasi-supernatural ways. Rather than being distracting, modern life in their view had an almost magical capacity to capture attention and overwhelm rational thought.Fascination argues that, in response to the dramatic scientific and cultural changes of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many American thinkers and writers came to conceive of the modern world as fundamentally fascinating. Describing such diverse phenomena as the electric generator, the movements of actresses, and ethnographic cinema as supernaturally alluring, they used the language of fascination to process and critique both popular ideologies of historical progress and the racializing logic upon which these ideologies were built. Drawing on an archive of primary texts from the fields of medicine, (para)psychology, philosophy, cultural criticism, and anthropology—as well as creative texts by Harriet Prescott Spofford, Charles Chesnutt, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edward S. Curtis, Robert J. Flaherty, and Djuna Barnes—Kindig reconsiders what it meant for Americans to be (and to be called) modern at the turn of the twentieth century.
Автор: Hatcher Dona Elena Название: Word Dances, Poems on Pointe! ISBN: 1098332709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098332709 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2897.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Word Dances, Poems on Pointe is a book of poems so well balanced while covering so many varied topics. It's cohesive and flows due to the chapters and Dona's unique style of telling stories with words. It's a compelling and easy poetry read making you want to quick turn each page then go back and read it again. The poems are clever, some with accompanying pictures and purposely written to illicit thinking, seeing and feeling just out side the known box. This poetry ensemble has many heartfelt feelings, abstract opinions, funny views about people and things you yourself have thought about but maybe not shared. You will definitely want to share this book of Poems on Pointe
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