{"product_id":"dance-as-text-mark-franko-9780199794010","title":"Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body","description":"\u003cem\u003eDance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a historical and theoretical examination of French court ballet over a hundred-year period, beginning in 1573, that spans the late Renaissance and early baroque. Utilizing aesthetic and ideological criteria, author Mark Franko analyzes court ballet librettos, contemporary performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in the literature of this period. Examining the formal choreographic apparatus that characterizes late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle, Franko postulates that the evolving aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the noble class, which devised and performed court ballets. He shows how the body emerged from verbal theater as a self-sufficient text whose autonomy had varied ideological connotations, most important among which was the expression of noble resistance to the increasingly absolutist monarchy. Franko's analysis blends archival research with critical and cultural theory in order to resituate the burlesque tradition in its politically volatile context. \u003cem\u003eDance as Text\u003c\/em\u003e thus provides a picture of the complex theoretical underpinnings of composite spectacle, the ideological tensions underlying experiments with autonomous dance, and finally, the subversiveness of Moli鑽e's use of court ballet traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Franko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199794014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199794010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Mark Franko","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054738632959,"sku":"9780199794010","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8312da6-2f7c-40d7-9ddc-adafb65daacf.jpg?v=1685031708","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dance-as-text-mark-franko-9780199794010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}