TY - JOUR
T1 - Genre experimentation and contemporary dance in Jeanne et le garçon formidable
AU - Oyallon-Koloski, Jenny
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Scholars have shown the importance of popular music and songs in French cinema, but have given less attention to the role that dance plays in contemporary French musicals. Over a dozen recent French musical films include a good deal of genre experimentation. A few of these films stand out in their choice of danse contemporaine over the more traditional musical genre dance styles of jazz, ballet, partnered social dancing or, more recently, hip hop. In particular, Jeanne et le garçon formidable (Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 1998) reconciles cinephilic links to established musical cycles - predominantly those within the classical Hollywood model and the French musicals of Jacques Demy - with a more experimental stylistic incorporation of contemporary dance forms.
AB - Scholars have shown the importance of popular music and songs in French cinema, but have given less attention to the role that dance plays in contemporary French musicals. Over a dozen recent French musical films include a good deal of genre experimentation. A few of these films stand out in their choice of danse contemporaine over the more traditional musical genre dance styles of jazz, ballet, partnered social dancing or, more recently, hip hop. In particular, Jeanne et le garçon formidable (Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 1998) reconciles cinephilic links to established musical cycles - predominantly those within the classical Hollywood model and the French musicals of Jacques Demy - with a more experimental stylistic incorporation of contemporary dance forms.
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U2 - 10.1080/14715880.2013.875759
DO - 10.1080/14715880.2013.875759
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84924080437
SN - 1471-5880
VL - 14
SP - 91
EP - 107
JO - Studies in French Cinema
JF - Studies in French Cinema
IS - 2
ER -