Jumping the color line : vernacular jazz dance in American film, 1929-1945 /
With a majority of examples taken from marginal film forms, such as shorts and B movies, the book highlights their role in disseminating alternative images of racial and gender identities as embodied by dancers - images that were at least partly at odds with those typically found in major Hollywood...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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New Barnet, Hertfordshire :
John Libbey Publishing Ltd,
[2021]
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| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3122268 |
书本目录:
- Jazz dance on the silver screen: race, gender, genre
- Doomed divas: Black dancing women in early sound film
- Kids and class acts: male dancers in Black-cast music shorts
- Potential pioneer: the film career of Black tap dancer Jeni LeGon
- Jumpin' at the jukebox, dancin' in the street: dance, race, and space in 1940s soundies
- Harlem to Hollywood: Whitey's Lindy Hoppers and the crossover success of a Black dance
- "A savage exhibition"? Swing and White youth culture in B movies
- Dance history, the swing dance revival, and vintage movies in the digital age.