Hewitt / Fish / Jameson Social Choreography

Ideology as Performance in Dance and Everyday Movement
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8658-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 261 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Work links dance and the aesthetics of everyday movement to ideas about social order.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hewitt, Andrew

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Social Choreography and the Aesthetic Continuum 1

1. The Body of Marsyas: Aesthetic Socialism and the Physiology of the Sublime 37

2. Stumbling and Legibility: Gesture and the Dialectic of Tact 78

3. "America Makes Me Sick!": Nationalism, Race, Gender, and Hysteria 117

4. The Scandalous Male Icon: Nijinsky and the Queering of Symbolist Aesthetics 156

5. From Women to Girl: Mass Culture and Gender Panic 177

Notes 213

Index 249

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Hewitt is Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the Modernist Imaginary and Fascist Modernism: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Avant-Garde.