Dance in Film and Television:
A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library

Aloff, Mindy
"Dance in Film." Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 49, no. 49, pp. B15-B16, August 2003.

Alpert, Michael
"Freylekhs on Film: The Portrayal of Jewish Traditional Dance in Yiddish Cinema." Jewish Folklore & Ethnology Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 3-4, pp. 6-7, 35, 1986.

Astaire, Fred.
Steps in time. New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, c1981.
--MOFF: GV1785.A83 A3 1981;

Banes, Sally
"Stepping high: Fred Astaire's drunk dances." In: Writing dancing in the age of postmodernism p. 171-83. Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, c1994.
--MAIN GV1623 .B36 1994

Billman, Larry.
Film choreographers and dance directors : an illustrated biographical encyclopedia with a history and filmographies, 1893 through 1995 Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1997.
--MAIN: GV1779 .B55 1997

Billman, Larry.
Fred Astaire : a bio-bibliography Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997.
--MAIN: GV1785.A83 B55 1997
--MOFF: GV1785.A83 B55 1997

Boyd, Jade
"Dance, Culture, and Popular Film: Considering Representations in Save the Last Dance." Feminist Media Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 67-83, March 2004.
UC users only

Brooks, Jodi
"Ghosting the Machine: The Sounds of Tap and the Sounds of Film." Screen, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 355-78, Winter 2003.
"A discussion of the significance of films in which tap dancing and typing have been brought together in the same frame. This significance arises from the fact that tap dancing and typing have a number of features in common, both in their respective histories and in their function as aural signifiers of 20th-century modernity. Each was developed in the 19th century during a period in which communication technologies were experiencing swift change, and each went on to take center stage in the early decades of the 20th century, revolutionizing office work and writing on the one hand and vernacular dance on the other." [Art Index]

Carroll, Noel.
"Toward a definition of moving-picture dance." Dance Research Journal 33.1 (Summer 2001): 46-61.
An attempt is made to explain moving-picture dance by offering a philosophical characterization of this field of activity. The moving-picture makers have devoted admirable amounts of effort and imagination to portraying dance in or through media as diverse as film, video, and computer animation.

Casper, Joseph Andrew.
Stanley Donen Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1983.
--MAIN: PN1998.A3 D592 1983
--MOFF: PN1998.A3 D592 1983

C`ebe, Gilles.
Fred Astaire Paris : H. Veyrier, 1981.
--MAIN: GV1785.A83 C4 1981

Cohen, Paula Marantz
"Thoughts on the Centennial of Fred Astaire." Raritan: A Quarterly Review, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 127-41, Summer 2000.

Cohan, Steven
"Dancing with Balls in the 1940s: Sissies, Sailors and the Camp Masculinity of Gene Kelly." In: The trouble with men : masculinities in European and Hollywood cinema / edited by Phil Powrie, Ann Davies and Bruce Babington. London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2004.
--Main Stack PN1995.9.M46.T76 2004

Cohan, Steven
"'Feminizing' the Song-and-Dance Man: Fred Astaire and the Spectacle of Masculinity in the Hollywood Musical." In: Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema / edited by Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark. London ; New York : Routledge, c1993.
--Main Stack PN1995.9.M46.S36 1993
--Moffitt PN1995.9.M46.S36 1993

Compton, G.
"Film dance and things to come." Dance Magazine v. 42 (January 1968) p. 34-7

Copeland, Roger
"New dance/film: perspectives on dance and cinema." Dance Magazine v. 48 (April 1974) p. 44-9

Croce, Arlene.
The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers book New York : Dutton, 1987 c1972.
--MOFF: GV1785.A83 C76 1987

Croce, Arlene.
"Paging Mr. Astaire." In: Sight lines New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1987.
--MAIN: GV1624.5.N4 C781 1987

The Dance Film and Video Guide
Dance Films Association; Compiled by Deirdre Towers. Princeton, NJ: Dance Horizons/Princeton Book Co., c1991.
--UCB Media Ctr GV1595 .D32 1991

Dance on Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos
Edited by Louise Spain; foreword by Jacques dAmboise. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press ; New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, 1998.
UCB Main GV1595 .D342 1998

Delamater, Jerome.
Dance in the Hollywood musical Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press, c1981
--MAIN: GV1779 .D44 1981

Dodds, Sherril
Dance on screen : genres and media from Hollywood to experimental art Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
--MAIN: GV1779 .D63 2001

Dunne, Michael
American film musical themes and forms / Michael Dunne. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, 2004.
--Main Stack PN1995.9.M86.D86 2004
--PFA PN1995.9.M86.D86 2004
Hollywood musicals and the depression -- Blackface minstrelsy in musicals -- Confronting rock culture -- Dance as a narrative agent -- American places and spaces -- Fred and Gene in Never never land -- Musical biopics -- Intertextual musicals -- Conclusion : "How about a nice musical?"

Envisioning dance on film and video
Judy Mitoma, editor ; Elizabeth Zimmer, text editor ; Dale Ann Stieber, DVD editor ; Nelli Heinonen, associate editor ; Norah Zuniga Shaw, assistant editor. New York : Routledge, 2002.
--Main Stack GV1779.E58 2002

Faris, Jocelyn.
Ginger Rogers : a bio-bibliography Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
--MAIN: PN2287.R72 F37 1994

Fischer, Lucy
"Designing women: art deco, the musical, and the female body." In: Music and cinema / edited by James Buhler, Caryl Flinn, and David Neumeyer. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England [for] Wesleyan University Press, c2000.
--Music ML2075.M875 2000

Gallafent, Edward.
Astaire & Rogers New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.
--MAIN: GV1785.A3 G35 2002

Garafola, Lynn
"Dance, Film, and the Ballets Russes." The Journal of the Society for Dance Research Vol. 16, No. 1 (Summer, 1998), pp. 3-25
UC users only

Genne, Beth.
"'Freedom incarnate': Jerome Robbins, Gene Kelly, and the dancing sailor as an icon of American values in World War II." Dance Chronicle 24.1 (Spring 2001): 83(21).
This article examines portrayals of World War II American sailors in ballets and motion pictures, focusing on the works of choreographer Jerome Robbins and Gene Kelly. Issues include depictions of soldiers' carefree and easy movements, American's as subjects in dance, the use of sailors in movies especially as 'pals' or 'buddies' in groups of three or more, the permissiblity allowed by the sailor's uniform and the public image of him as a cultural hero.

Gerstner, David Anthony
"Dancer from the Dance: Gene Kelly, Television, and the Beauty of Movement." Velvet Light Trap, vol. 49, pp. 48-66, Spring 2002.

Gladstone, Valerie
"Screendance." Nation, vol. 268, no. 11, pp. 31-34, March 1999.

Gottfried, Martin.
All his jazz : the life & death of Bob Fosse New York : Bantam Books, c1990.
--MAIN: GV1785.F67 G68 1990

Green, Stanley.
Starring Fred Astaire New York, Dodd, Mead [1973]
--MAIN: GV1785.A83 G731 1973

Grubb, Kevin Boyd.
Razzle dazzle : the life and work of Bob Fosse New York : St. Martin's Press, c1989.
--MAIN: GV1785.F67 G78 1989

Hay, James
"Dancing and Deconstructing the American Dream." Quarterly Review of Film Studies 10:2 (1985), pp.97-117

Hirschhorn, Clive.
Gene Kelly : a biography Chicago : Regnery, 1975, c1974.
--MAIN: PN2287.K64 H51 1974

Hungerford, Mary Jane.
Dancing in commercial motion pictures. Published: [n.p., 1950]
--MAIN: GV1779 .H8

Kasson, John F.
"Dances of the machine in early twentieth-century America." In: A modern mosaic : art and modernism in the United States / edited by Townsend Ludington ; assistant editors, Thomas Fahy & Sarah P. Reuning. Art and modernism in the United States Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2000.
--Main Stack NX504.M584 2000
Includes discussion of Busby Berkeley

Kendrick, Walter.
"Dancing in the dark.(Column)." Salmagundi 118-119 (Spring-Summer 1998): 16(13).
This article discusses dance in film as a means of emotional expression. A comparison is made between the rehearsed but seemingly spontaneous performances by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, and the contemporary cinematic focus on the effort required by such performances.

Knight, Arthur.
Dancing in films. [New York, Dance Index-Ballet Caravan] c1947.
--Main Stack GV1779.K6

LaBoskey, Sara
"Getting Off: Portrayal of Masculinity in Hip Hop Dance in Film." Dance Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 112-20, Winter 2001.

Landay, Lori
"The Flapper Film: Comedy, Dance and Jazz Age Kinaesthetics." In: A feminist reader in early cinema / edited by Jennifer M. Bean and Diane Negra. Durham : Duke University Press, 2002. A Camera obscura book
--Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.F467 2002
--PFA PN1995.9.W6.F467 2002

Leahy, Sarah.
"Bardot and dance: representing the real?(Brigitte Bardot)." French Cultural Studies 13.1 (Feb 2002): 49(16).
The dance scenes in Brigitte Bardot's films encourage the female spectator to identify with the Ideal body. In addition, Bardot constitutes herself as subject in these scenes, and dance signifies individual freedom.

McLean, Adrienne L.
"The image of the ballet artist in popular films." Journal of Popular Culture 25.n1 (Summer 1991): 1(19).

McLean, Adrienne L.
"The Thousand Ways There Are to Move: Camp and Oriental Dance in the Hollywood Musicals of Jack Cole." In: Visions of the East : orientalism in film / edited by Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.
--Main Stack PN1995.9.E95.V57 1997

Morrison, J'aime.
"Irish choreo-cinema: dancing at the crossroads of language and performance.(The Theater of Irish Cinema)(Critical Essay)." The Yale Journal of Criticism 15.1 (Spring 2002): 173(12).
Dancing is a significant element in several motion pictures and plays set in Ireland, where movement and language create kinetic poetry. Examples include Brian Friel's 'Dancing at Lughnasa,' John Huston's 'The Dead,' and David Lean's 'Ryan's Daughter.'

Mueller, John E.
Astaire dancing : the musical films New York : Knopf, 1985.
--MOFF: GV1779 .M84 1985
--MAIN: GV1779 .M841 1985

Mueller, John E.
Dance Film Directory: An Annotated and Evaluative Guide to Films on Ballet and Modern Dance/ John Mueller. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Book Co., c1979.
--UCB Main Library Referece GV1595 .M89

Mueller, John E.
"Dance in the earliest motion pictures." [paper prints]. Dance Magazine v. 51 (February 1977) p. 99

Mueller, John E.
"Fred Astaire and the Integrated Musical." Cinema Journal, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 28-40, Fall 1984.
UC Berkeley users only

Ochoa, Pedro.
Tango y cine mundial Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina : Ediciones del Jilguero, c2003.
--MAIN: PN1995.9.T27 O28 2003

Parker, David L.
Guide to Dance in Film: A Catalog of U.S. Productions Including Dance Sequences, with Names of Dancers, Choreographers, Directors, and Other Details/ David L. Parker and Esther Siegel. Detroit: Gale Research, c1978. Series title: Performing arts information guide series ; v. 3.
--UCB Main Library Referece GV1779 .P37

Pike, Bob
The genius of Busby Berkeley [Reseda, Calif.] CFS Books [1973]
--MAIN: PN1998.A3 .B487

Richards, Richard John
Ginger: salute to a star. Brighton, Clifton Books, 1969.
--MAIN: PN2287.R72 R51 1969

Rubin, Martin
"The crowd, the collective, and the chorus: Busby Berkeley and the New Deal." In: Movies and mass culture / edited and with an introduction by John Belton. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c1996.
--Main Stack PN1995.9.S6.M68 1996
--Moffitt PN1995.9.S6.M68 1996

Rubin, Martin
Showstoppers : Busby Berkeley and the tradition of spectacle New York : Columbia University Press, c1993.
--MAIN: PN1998.3.B475 R8 1993; PFA : PN1998.3.B48 R8 1993

Silverman, Stephen M.
Dancing on the ceiling : Stanley Donen and his movies New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996.
--MAIN: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996
--MOFF: PN1998.3.D65 S55 1996;

St. Charnes, Casey.
"Dancing feats. (dancing in the movies)." American Film 15.n10 (July 1990): 54(3).

Studlar, Gaylyn.
""Out-Salomeing Salome": dance, the New Woman, and fan magazine Orientalism.(The Movies: A Centennial Issue)." Michigan Quarterly Review 34.n4 (Fall 1995): 486(25).
The depiction of Oriental women in motion pictures has been a source of study for film critics and historians. Twentieth century film makers focused on the socio-cultural relevance of sexual affairs between men and women from the East and West. Early movies, of 1916 to 1926, convey the change in attitudes of New Women shaped by the rise of consumerism. Oriental women dancers were considered liberal women and the fan magazines of the West began to appreciate the dancers as emblems of female sexuality.

Telotte, J.P.
"Dancing the Depression: Narrative Strategy In the Astaire-Rogers Films." Journal of Popular Film and Television 8(3), 1980, 15-24.
When examined together, the nine Astaire-Rogers Depression-era films reveal a common narrative formula. Restriction and conformity, mirroring the limiting effect of the Depression on American society, are juxtaposed with the expressive energy of the individual to create a narrative tension that finds resolution in the dance numbers.

Telotte, J.P.
"A Sober Celebration: Song And Dance In The "New" Musical." Journal of Popular Film and Television 8(1), 1980, 2-14.
A new form of musical film, which revitalized the genre during the late 1970s, reflects cultural changes by incorporating song and dance into more restricted physical and narrative limitations than traditional musicals. The "new" musical, such as Saturday Night Fever and The Last Waltz, emphasizes the tension between the expressive--song and dance--and the narrative--everyday life.

Thomas, Bob
Astaire, the man, the dancer New York : St. Martin's Press, c1984.
--PFA : PN2287.A8 T44 1984

Thomas, Tony
The Busby Berkeley book. [Greenwich, Conn.] New York Graphic Society [1973]
--PFA : PN1998.3.B48 T46 1973
--MAIN: PN1998.A3 B488 1973

Thomas, Tony
The films of Gene Kelly, song and dance man. Secaucus, N.J., Citadel Press [1974]
--MOFF: PN2287.K64 T5;

Unger, Arthur.
"Dance on television: as seen by dancers." Television Quarterly 28.n1 (Wntr 1996): 68(2).
Three famous dancers expressed their attitudes towards television coverage of dancing. Mikhail Baryshnikov did not approve, finding the lack of an audience stultifying, although a recorded live performance could be valuable. Martha Graham enjoyed it, transposing her material instead of choreographing specifically for the medium. Dame Margot Fonteyn noted the expanded audience for dance due to TV, 'The Red Shoes' movie and Anna Pavlova's career.

Vize, Lesley
"Music and the body in dance film." In: Popular music and film / edited by Ian Inglis. London ; New York : Wallflower, 2003.
--Music ML2075.P66 2003

Walley, Jonathan
"From Objecthood to Subject Matter: Yvonne Rainer's Transition from Dance to Film." Senses of Cinema: An Online Film Journal Devoted to the Serious and Eclectic Discussion of Cinema, vol. 18, pp. (no pagination), Winter 2002.

West, Martha Ullman
"Film in Dance." Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 49, no. 49, pp. B17-B18, August 2003.

Wollen, Peter; Allan, Vicky
"D: Dance." Sight and Sound, vol. 6, no. 9, pp. 28-31, September 1996.

Yudkoff, Alvin.
Gene Kelly : a life of dance and dreams New York : Back Stage Books, 1999.
--MAIN: PN2287.K64 Y83 1999






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