Shall We Dance The Art Of Popular Dance On Screen

'Shall We Dance?: The Art of Popular Dance on Screen' introduces students to a myriad of dance styles that appear on the popular screen in American and global contexts. It looks at how the screen apparatus is employed to shape the ways in which dancing bodies are represented across a range of film and television genres, and it develops interpretive methods to read popular screen dance within its social, historical, and economic contexts of production. The course examines how dance on screen can impact spectators' lived experience, and the affect that screen images have on the broader social world.