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. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras - Marisa Tomei and Cher - to demonstrate how each star illuminates aspects of ethnicity, gender, consumerism, and class at work in American culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415216784
• ISBN-10: 0415216788
• Artikelnr.: 22280831

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