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- catalog abstract ""The age of high tech is haunted by an image from the last century that developed in the three decades between the patenting of the cinematographe and its turn toward sound: the dancing machine, paradox of the ease of mechanization and its tortures, embodiment of the motor and the automaton, image of fusion and fragmentation." "An excavation of this image, in the historical context of maximum productivity and mechanical reproducibility, reveals its development in European Modernism - Modernism drawn to dancers of American, African, and Asian origins, to Taylorism as well as to Primitivism, to cinema and to myth. This book traces the abstraction and anonymity of the bodies making machines dance, in the codes of modernisms graphic and choreographic, and in the streamlined gestures of industry, avant-garde art, and entertainment. What surfaces is dance's centrality to machine aesthetics and to its alternatives, as well as to the early elaboration of the machine that would become the ultimate guarantor of modern dance's de-mechanization, the motion-picture camera."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12926960.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""An excavation of this image, in the historical context of maximum productivity and mechanical reproducibility, reveals its development in European Modernism - Modernism drawn to dancers of American, African, and Asian origins, to Taylorism as well as to Primitivism, to cinema and to myth. This book traces the abstraction and anonymity of the bodies making machines dance, in the codes of modernisms graphic and choreographic, and in the streamlined gestures of industry, avant-garde art, and entertainment. What surfaces is dance's centrality to machine aesthetics and to its alternatives, as well as to the early elaboration of the machine that would become the ultimate guarantor of modern dance's de-mechanization, the motion-picture camera."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The age of high tech is haunted by an image from the last century that developed in the three decades between the patenting of the cinematographe and its turn toward sound: the dancing machine, paradox of the ease of mechanization and its tortures, embodiment of the motor and the automaton, image of fusion and fragmentation."".
- catalog description "Economies of gesture : mechanics, thermodynamics, cinematics -- Choreocinema -- Abstraction -- Ballets without bodies -- Labor is dancing -- Submitting to the machine.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-248) and index.".
- catalog extent "vi, 254 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0804739889 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0804739978 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog subject "792.8 21".
- catalog subject "GV1783 .M25 2003".
- catalog subject "Machinery.".
- catalog subject "Mechanization in dance.".
- catalog subject "Modern dance.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Economies of gesture : mechanics, thermodynamics, cinematics -- Choreocinema -- Abstraction -- Ballets without bodies -- Labor is dancing -- Submitting to the machine.".
- catalog title "Dancing machines : choreographies of the age of mechanical reproduction / Felicia McCarren.".
- catalog type "text".