Picart From Ballroom to DanceSport

Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body Culture
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8241-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 177 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Communication Studies

An insider explores the transformation of ballroom dance into an Olympic sport.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Picart, Caroline Joan S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. The Contested Landscape of Ballroom Dance: Culture, Gender, Race, Class, and Nationality in Performance
2. Dancing through Different Worlds: An Autoethnography of the Interactive Body and Virtual Emotions in Ballroom Dance
3. Ballroom and the Movies
4. Paving the Road to the Olympics: Staging and Financing the Olympic Dream
5. Packaging Fantasy and Morality
6. Quo Vadis?

Ballroom-Dance-Related Organizations
Appendix: Filmography of Selected DanceSport and Ballroom Films
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Joan S. Picart captured second place at the 2005 United States DanceSport Championships in the World Pro Am Cabaret Champion category, as well as second place at the Millennium National Pro Am Cabaret Championship. When not dancing, she is Associate Professor of English and Courtesy Associate Professor of Law at Florida State University, and is the author of many books, including Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror, also published by SUNY Press, and Inside Notes from the Outside.