From Ballroom to DanceSport: Aesthetics, Athletics, and Body Culture
- Author: Picart, Caroline Joan S.
Book
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Contents
- 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