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.

• Introduction: Dance on ScreenMelissa Blanco Borelli Screened Histories1. An Australian in Paris: techno-choreographic bohemianism in Moulin Rouge! Clare Parfitt-Brown2. A Different Kind of Ballet: Rereading Dorothy Arzner's Dance Girl DanceMary Simonson3. Communities of Practice: Active and Affective Viewing of Ballroom, the Charleston and the Twist on the Popular ScreenAlexandra Harlig4. Disciplining Black Swan, Animalizing AmbitionAriel Osterweis 5. Gene Kelly: The Original, Updated Mary Fogarty6. Appreciation - Appropriation - Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood History of Black DanceSusie Trenka7. Impossible Moves: Early Hip Hop, B-Boying and Hollywood ProductionThomas DeFrantz The Commercial Big Screen8. Dirty Dancing: Dance, Class, and Race in the Pursuit of WomanhoodColleen Dunagan and Roxane Fenton9. Displace and Be Queen: Gender and Interculturalism in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) Cindy García10. "It's Sort of 'Members Only'": Transgression and Body Politics in Save the Last DanceInna Arzumanova11. "The White Girl in the Middle:" The Performativity of Race, Class, and Gender in Step Up 2: The StreetsRaquel Monroe12. Affect-ive Moves: Violence, Space, and the Body in RIZE's krump dancingStephanie L. Batiste13. A Taste of Honey: Choreographing Mulatta in the Hollywood Dance FilmMelissa Blanco Borelli14. "He's doing his Superman thing again": Moving Bodies in The MatrixDerek A. Burrill The Music Video and Televisual Bodies15. 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 Liu17. Single Ladies, Plural: Racism, Scandal and Authenticity within the Multiplication of Online DiscoursesPhilippa Thomas18. The Dance Factor: Hip Hop, Spectacle and Reality TelevisionLaura Robinson19. Dance, Creating Commodity: The Rhetoric of So You Think You Can DanceAlexis A. Weisbrod Screening Nationhood20. Hatchets and Hairbrushes: Dance, Gender, and Improvisational Ingenuity in Cold War Western MusicalsKathaleen Boche21. 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 PartyRosemary Candelario3. Snake Dances and Marriageable Daughters: Defining Self and Nation in Bride and PrejudiceAmita Nijhawan Cyber Screens24. Monstrous Belonging: Performing 'Thriller' After 9/11Harmony Bench25. 'Dancing between the break beats': contemporary urban Indigenous thought and cultural expression through hip-hopKaryn Recollet26. Dancing With Myself: Dance Central, Choreography and Embodiment Derek Burrill and Melissa Blanco Borelli Conclusion27. Values in Motion: Reflections on Popular Screen DanceSherril Dodds

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