{"product_id":"hollywood-dance-ins-and-the-reproduction-of-bodies-9780197789674","title":"Hollywood Dance-Ins and the Reproduction of Bodies","description":"\u003cem\u003eHollywood Dance-ins and the Reproduction of Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e proposes that a figure who barely registers in film studies or dance studies offers valuable insight into ideas about \"the body\" and the reproductive labor that gives rise to images of bodies. The book is the first scholarly study of the dance-in, a dancer who executes a star's choreography as cameras are being focused and lights are being set. While they share similarities with doubles and stand-ins, dance-ins do not replace stars' bodies on screen and they often serve multiple unseen roles, including as choreographers' assistants and stars' coaches, making them vital to the creation and transmission of choreography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on dance-ins in mid-twentieth century Hollywood, when film musicals and the studio system were at their height, author Anthea Kraut exposes the racialized and gendered \"corporeal ecosystem\" that operated behind the scenes, propping up and concealed behind the seeming self-referentiality of white stars' filmic dancing bodies. A production history informed by feminist materialist approaches to labor and critical race theory, \u003cem\u003eHollywood Dance-ins\u003c\/em\u003e tells the stories of the 1940s white pin-up star Betty Grable's dependence on her white dance-in Angie Blue; the African American jazz dancer Marie Bryant's private coaching of a myriad of stars in the late 1940s and early 1950s; Carol Haney and Jeanne Coyne's training of the white ingé(c)nue Debbie Reynolds for\u003cem\u003e Singi'â in the Rain\u003c\/em\u003e (1952); the Mexican American dancer Alex Romero's close partnership with the white star Gene Kelly; and the biracial star Nancy Kwan's on- and off-screen exchanges with a white production team and Asian\/American ensemble members in \u003cem\u003eFlower Drum Song\u003c\/em\u003e (1961).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthea Kraut\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in the Department of Dance at UC Riverside, where she teaches courses in critical dance studies. Her research focuses on the racial and gender politics of U.S. dance. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eChoreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChoreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the past recipient of an ACLS fellowship, an NEH fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51603090702610,"sku":"9780197789674","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f71a8b37-14ec-4f0d-b9d2-3a8e5e12aa16.jpg?v=1757423478","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hollywood-dance-ins-and-the-reproduction-of-bodies-9780197789674","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}