DANC 1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Farrah Fawcett, Al Pacino, Social Dance
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Lecture: genre: social dance (disco, theory: dance as a vehicle for polarized gender relations and bravado, outcome: dance as a utopia. What is social dance: as commonly used, the term social dance describes partnered dancing to musical accompaniment by men and women, social dance is often a mechanism for the heterosexual socialization of young adults within a society. Scene analysis #1: tony manero"s biographic montage - http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=5oz3ytimglc&feature=related, represents the middle-class masculine guy who is gritty. Is very temporary: there is no room for improvement, there is no conflicts to solve, there is no suffering. Chris jordan"s gender and class mobility in saturday night fever and flashdance . Jordan suggests that a middle-class woman as tamer of working-class man. Stephanie is dominating him: stephanie shows him that not all women are virgins or whore, she is a complex. His family and workplace are more dominant.