Dance and the Hollywood Latina : : Race, Sex, and Stardom / / Priscilla Peña Ovalle.
Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) :; 26 illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Mobilizing the Latina Myth
- 2. Dolores Del Rio Dances across the Imperial Color Line
- 3. Carmen Miranda Shakes It for the Nation
- 4. Rita Hayworth and the Cosmetic Borders of Race
- 5. Rita Moreno, the Critically Acclaimed "All-Round Ethnic"
- 6. Jennifer Lopez, Racial Mobility, and the New Urban/ Latina Commodity
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author