Bob Fosse's choreography endows women with agency and self-confidence. He explores female sexuality and empowers women through his use of androgyny, glamour, fetishism, and the urban aesthetic. In his stage and film choreographic structures, Fosse cedes independence to women giving female performers and female viewers a chance to celebrate power without sacrificing their femininity. The most compelling aspect of his work is the appreciation of feminine traits combined with the appropriation of fetishized objects that give women authority. Unlike more traditional schools of feminist and male gaze theory, which consider emphasis on female sexual display an necessarily exploitative and objectifying, "glam-femme" theory asserts that women are empowered through glorification of glamour and the sex appeal associated with it. / A Thesis Submitted to the Department of Dance in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts. / Spring Semester, 2003. / April 21, 2003. / Bob Fosse's Choreography / Includes bibliographical references. / Sally R. Sommer, Professor Directing Thesis; Tricia Henry Young, Committee Member; John O. Perpener, III, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_180604 |
| Contributors | Milovanovic, Dara (authoraut), Sommer, Sally R. (professor directing thesis), Young, Tricia Henry (committee member), Perpener, John O. (committee member), School of Dance (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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