University/Organization
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Title
The Elusive Utopian Vision in Dance Films
Synopsis
This paper is an attempt to analyze dominant patterns embedded in the dance films as a genre different from musicals and music videos. I attempt to read the optimistic closure of the narrative in dance movies made in Hollywood between the 1970s to the 2010s as a utopian vision derived from Western art and body philosophy.