Diane Negra

Off-White Hollywood

American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

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Produktbeschreibung

Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation-building.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415216777
• ISBN-10: 041521677X
• Artikelnr.: 21146980

Autorenporträt

Diane Negra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio, TV and Film at the University of North Texas. She is the co-editor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (Duke University Press 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

1 Hollywood film and the narrativization of ethnic femininity 2 The wearing
of the green: Irishness as a promotional discourse in the career of Colleen
Moore 3 Immigrant stardom in imperial America: Pola Negri and the problem
of typology 4 Sonja Henie in Hollywood: Whiteness, athleticism and
Americanization 5 Ethnicity and the interventionist imagination:
Domesticity, exoticism and scandal in the persona of Hedy Lamarr 6 Marisa
Tomei and the fantasy of ethnicity 7 Stardom, corporeality and ethnic
indeterminacy: Cher's disrupted/disruptive body