• "Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance" by Carrie Preston
  • Alumni Author: Preston, Carrie
  • Year: 2006
  • Publisher / Date: Oxford University Press, 2011
  • First study to trace the shared history of modern dance, silent film, and poetic recitation in Delsartism
  • Interdisciplinary approach will appeal to scholars from a variety of areas: modernist studies, film studies, dance history, theater studies, and gender studies
  • Informed by interviews with contemporary dancers and choreographers, including Lori Belilove, artistic director of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
  • Features over twenty illustrations