{"product_id":"dont-act-just-dance-the-metapolitics-of-cold-war-culture-paperback-softback-9780813565262","title":"Don't Act, Just Dance; The Metapolitics of Cold War Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813565262","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDon't Act, Just Dance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Metapolitics of Cold War Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Gunther Kodat (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813565262\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 December 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 12 photographs\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This book is a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003egrand jetÉ\u003c\/i\u003e, a series of sustained arabesques introducing a new and exciting way of thinking through the relation between aesthetic and political forms in twentieth-century American culture.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Virginia Jackson (University of California-Irvine) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDon’t Act, Just Dance\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptional study of cold war culture. Americanists will find indispensable Kodat's brilliant meta-political analyses of works by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, Stanley Kubrick, and Marianne Moore. I cannot recommend this book too highly.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Harilaos Stecopoulos (author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An important manifesto for dance as a subject of serious scholarly attention in academic disciplines beyond dance history and dance studies … the book's final case studies are brilliant comparative meditations on the complex, multilayered relationship between Cold War art and politics.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Dance Chronicle)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAt some point in their career, nearly all the dancers who worked with George Balanchine were told “don’t act, dear; just dance.” The dancers understood this as a warning against melodramatic over-interpretation and an assurance that they had all the tools they needed to do justice to the steps-but its implication that to dance is already to act in a manner both complete and sufficient resonates beyond stage and studio. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDrawing on fresh archival material, \u003ci\u003eDon’t Act, Just Dance\u003c\/i\u003e places dance at the center of the story of the relationship between Cold War art and politics. Catherine Gunther Kodat takes Balanchine’s catch phrase as an invitation to explore the politics of Cold War culture-in particular, to examine the assumptions underlying the role of “apolitical” modernism in U.S. cultural diplomacy. Through close, theoretically informed readings of selected important works-Marianne Moore’s “Combat Cultural,” dances by George Balanchine, Merce Cunningham, and Yuri Grigorovich, Stanley Kubrick’s \u003ci\u003eSpartacus\u003c\/i\u003e, and John Adams’s \u003ci\u003eNixon in China\u003c\/i\u003e-Kodat questions several commonly-held beliefs about the purpose and meaning of modernist cultural productions during the Cold War. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRather than read the dance through a received understanding of Cold War culture, \u003ci\u003eDon’t Act, Just Dance\u003c\/i\u003e reads Cold War culture through the dance, and in doing so establishes a new understanding of the politics of modernism in the arts of the period. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I          Rethinking Cold War Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1          Combat Cultural\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2          History: From the WPA to the NEA (through the CIA)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3          Theory: Adorno and RanciÈre (Abstraction, Modernism, Gender, Sexuality)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4          Dancing: “Don’t Act, Just Dance”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II         Rereading Cold War Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5          Figures in the Carpet: Balanchine, Cunningham, “Persia”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6          Spartacus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7          From Art as Diplomacy to Diplomacy as Art: The Red Detachment of \u003ci\u003eNixon in China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559342862616,"sku":"9780813565262","price":30.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dont-act-just-dance-the-metapolitics-of-cold-war-culture-paperback-softback-9780813565262","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}