{"product_id":"dancing-women-usha-iyer-9780190938741","title":"Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema","description":"\u003cem\u003eDancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e, an ambitious study of two of South Asia's most popular cultural forms -- cinema and dance -- historicizes and theorizes the material and cultural production of film dance, a staple attraction of popular Hindi cinema. It explores how the dynamic figurations of the body wrought by cinematic dance forms from the 1930s to the 1990s produce unique constructions of gender, sexuality, stardom, and spectacle. By charting discursive shifts through figurations of dancer-actresses, their publicly performed movements, private training, and the cinematic and extra-diegetic narratives woven around their dancing bodies, the book considers the \"women's question\" via new mobilities corpo-realized by dancing women. Some of the central figures animating this corporeal history are Azurie, Sadhona Bose, Vyjayanthimala, Helen, Waheeda Rehman, Madhuri Dixit, and Saroj Khan, whose performance histories fold and intersect with those of other dancing women, including \u003cem\u003edevadasis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003etawaifs\u003c\/em\u003e, Eurasian actresses, oriental dancers, vamps, choreographers, and backup dancers. Through a material history of the labor of producing on-screen dance, theoretical frameworks that emphasize collaboration, such as the \"choreomusicking body\" and \"dance musicalization,\" aesthetic approaches to embodiment drawing on treatises like the \u003cem\u003eNatya Sastra\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eAbhinaya Darpana\u003c\/em\u003e, and formal analyses of cine-choreographic \"techno-spectacles,\" \u003cem\u003eDancing Women\u003c\/em\u003e offers a variegated, textured history of cinema, dance, and music. Tracing the gestural genealogies of film dance produces a very different narrative of Bombay cinema, and indeed of South Asian cultural modernities, by way of a corporeal history co-choreographed by a network of remarkable dancing women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Usha Iyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190938749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190938741\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 10\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021","brand":"Usha Iyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43942867828991,"sku":"9780190938741","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_04229c62-a720-4f49-831a-74a0ce7e3c12.jpg?v=1681494822","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dancing-women-usha-iyer-9780190938741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}