Table of Contents

Introduction: Dance on Screen
Melissa Blanco Borelli

Screened Histories
1. An Australian in Paris: techno-choreographic bohemianism in Moulin Rouge!
Clare Parfitt-Brown
2. A Different Kind of Ballet: Rereading Dorothy Arzner's Dance Girl Dance
Mary Simonson
3. Communities of Practice: Active and Affective Viewing of Ballroom, the Charleston and the Twist on the Popular Screen
Alexandra Harlig
4. Disciplining Black Swan, Animalizing Ambition
Ariel Osterweis
5. Gene Kelly: The Original, Updated
Mary Fogarty
6. Appreciation - Appropriation - Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood History of Black Dance
Susie Trenka
7. Impossible Moves: Early Hip Hop, B-Boying and Hollywood Production
Thomas DeFrantz

The Commercial Big Screen
8. Dirty Dancing: Dance, Class, and Race in the Pursuit of Womanhood
Colleen Dunagan and Roxane Fenton
9. Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004)
Cindy García
10. "It's Sort of 'Members Only'": Transgression and Body Politics in Save the Last Dance
Inna Arzumanova
11. "The White Girl in the Middle:" The Performativity of Race, Class, and Gender in Step Up 2: The Streets
Raquel Monroe
12. Affect-ive Moves: Violence, Space, and the Body in RIZE's krump dancing
Stephanie L. Batiste
13. A Taste of Honey: Choreographing Mulatta in the Hollywood Dance Film
Melissa Blanco Borelli
14. "He's doing his Superman thing again": Moving Bodies in The Matrix
Derek A. Burrill

The Music Video and Televisual Bodies
15. Girl Power, Real Politics: Dis/Respectability, Post-Raciality and the Politics of Inclusion
Takiyah Nur Amin
16. 'Sexiness' in disguise: Dancing 'Chinese-American' in Coco Lee's Hip Hop Tonight (2006)
Chih-Chieh Liu
17. Single Ladies, Plural: Racism, Scandal and Authenticity within the Multiplication of Online Discourses
Philippa Thomas
18. The Dance Factor: Hip Hop, Spectacle and Reality Television
Laura Robinson
19. Dance, Creating Commodity: The Rhetoric of So You Think You Can Dance
Alexis A. Weisbrod

Screening Nationhood
20. Hatchets and Hairbrushes: Dance, Gender, and Improvisational Ingenuity in Cold War Western Musicals
Kathaleen Boche
21. Cuba: Understanding the Revolution through Dance(d) Scenes
Victor Fowler (translated by Tom Phillips)
22. Shine Your Light on the World: The Utopian Bodies of Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Rosemary Candelario
3. Snake Dances and Marriageable Daughters: Defining Self and Nation in Bride and Prejudice
Amita Nijhawan

Cyber Screens
24. Monstrous Belonging: Performing 'Thriller' After 9/11
Harmony Bench
25. 'Dancing between the break beats': contemporary urban Indigenous thought and cultural expression through hip-hop
Karyn Recollet
26. Dancing With Myself: Dance Central, Choreography and Embodiment
Derek Burrill and Melissa Blanco Borelli

Conclusion
27. Values in Motion: Reflections on Popular Screen Dance
Sherril Dodds

About the Author

Melissa Blanco Borelli is Senior Lecturer in the Drama and Theatre Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. Previously she was Lecturer in Dance and Film Studies at the University of Surrey.