“We'll Always Be Bosom Buddies”

Wolf, Stacy

doi:10.1215/10642684-2005-002

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“…See (Kelly 1958) and, among others, (Clover 1995;Gerstner 2002;Cohan 2005;Krayenbuhl 2017). 10 See, for example, (Doty 1993;Miller 1998;Wolf 2006;Paredez 2014). 11 For example, (Doty 1993;Cohan 2005;Wolf 2006).…”

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The Hollywood Dance-In: Abstract and Material Relations of Corporeal Reproduction

Kraut

2019

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This essay asks what the figure of the Hollywood dance-in—a dancer who performed in place of a star prior to filming and who assisted the choreographer in the creation of dance numbers—can reveal about the reproduction of corporeality as an operation that is both abstract and material. Focusing on the white film star Gene Kelly and his Mexican-born dance-in Alex Romero, the essay shows how the men functioned as literal and virtual doubles for one another in the rehearsal process and argues for an understanding of their relations of reproduction as queer and racially charged.

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“…10 See, for example, (Doty 1993;Miller 1998;Wolf 2006;Paredez 2014). 11 For example, (Doty 1993;Cohan 2005;Wolf 2006). performance of masculinity which dialectically crosses the categories of gender and sexuality," Cohan (2005, p. 166) notes the frequency with which Kelly is paired with an effeminate sidekick in his film musicals.…”

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