ISBN:
9781315753294
,
9781138804043
,
1138804045
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 185 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Iranian studies 32
Series Statement:
Iranian studies
DDC:
792.8/09550904
Keywords:
Dance History
;
Gender expression History
;
Iran
;
Tanz
;
Politik
;
Geschlechterpolitik
;
Geschlechterrolle
Abstract:
Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage investigates the ways dancing bodies have been providing evidence for competing representations of modernity, urbanism, and religiosity across the twentieth century. Focusing on the transformation of the staged dancing body, its space of performance, and spectatorial cultural ideology, this book traces the dancing body in multiple milieus of performance, including the Pahlavi era's national artistic scene and the popular cafe and cabaret stages, as well as the commercial cinematic screen and the post-revolutionary Islamized theatrical stage. It links the socio-political discourses on performance with the staged public dancer, in order to interrogate the formation of dominant categories of "modern," "high," and "artistic," and the subsequent "othering" of cultural realms that were discursively peripheralized from the "national" stage
Description / Table of Contents:
1. Introduction2. The invention of an ideal female national dancer in twentieth-century Iran -- 3. Mutribs and their dancers: the counter-ideal performers of new Iran -- 4. The cabaret dancer in her quotidian life -- 5. Dancing bodies in pre-revolutionary films and the 'enticing' reel cabaret dancer -- 6. The dancing body in the anti-obscenity discourse of religious press in pre-revolutionary Iran -- 7. Harikat-i mawzun: the post-revolutionary Iranian theatrical dance -- 8. Dance, body, space, and subjectivity on the twentieth-century Iranian stage.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
