November 23, 2020: A talk by Usha Iyer, “Dancer-Actresses as Choreographers of New Mobilities.” скачать в хорошем качестве

November 23, 2020: A talk by Usha Iyer, “Dancer-Actresses as Choreographers of New Mobilities.”

Monday, November 23 A talk by Usha Iyer (Stanford) “Corporealizing Colonial Modernities: Dancer-Actresses as Choreographers of New Mobilities.” Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University Usha Iyer is Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, in the Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University. Professor Iyer's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of cinema, performance, and gender studies with a specific focus on stardom, body cultures, spectatorial desire and engagement, and the political economy of transnational media. Her new book, "Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Popular Hindi Cinema" (Oxford University Press, 2020), examines the role of dance in the construction of female stardom in popular Hindi cinema from the 1930s to the 1990s, theorizing and historicizing film dance, a staple “attraction” of the popular Indian film form, in relation to the construction of cinematic narratives, star bodies, and spectator-citizens.