Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780190938741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

Usha Iyer

Recenzje

In Iyer's astute and nuanced choreomusicological analysis, we encounter popular Hindi film dance in all its ontological and epistemological complexity. Not only does this book map the divergent and often competing ideological significations of the female dancing body in cinema, it also complicates ideas about women's agency, visibility, and erasure in modern histories of South Asian dance. Dancing Women is an interpretive tour de force. It inspires us to read film corporeally, and to radically rethink what we understand as spectatorial engagement with dance in Indian cinema.

O autorze

Usha Iyer is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.