Todd Decker

Astaire by Numbers: Time & the Straight White Male Dancer

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Produktbeschreibung

Astaire by Numbers offers a complete re-assessment of a twentieth-century icon of American popular culture through a new looks at every second of dancing Fred Astaire committed to film in the studio era. Author Todd Decker provides a deep examination of this towering straight white male figure from the ground up by digging deeply into questions of race, gender, and sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197643587
• ISBN-10: 0197643582
• Artikelnr.: 66141382

Autorenporträt

Todd Decker is the Paul Tietjens Professor of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published four books and many articles and book chapters on popular music and media in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. Decker has lectured on the stage and screen musical at the Library of Congress and London's Victoria and Albert Museum and was featured in a 2019 BBC World Service documentary on the song "Ol' Man River."

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
One: Numbers
Two: Shots
Three: Days, Hours, Minutes
Midpoint: "I just / Won't / [don't?] Dance"
Four: Frames, Sets, Cuts
Five: Partners
Six: Noisy Masculinity
Conclusion
Appendix One: Astaire films corpus
Appendix Two: Astaire dancing corpus by number
Appendix Three: Astaire dancing corpus by shot
Acknowledgements
Notes