Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity / / ed. by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R,; Acevedo-Muñoz, Ernesto R.,; Beltrán, Mary,; Cagle, Chris,; Caparoso Konzett, Delia Malia,; Cassano, Graham,; Eagle, Jonna,; Friedman, Ryan Jay,; Konzett, Delia Malia Caparoso,; Konzett, Matthias,; Maurice, Alice,; Mayer, Ruth,; Okada, Jun,; Ovalle, Priscilla Peña,; Regester, Charlene,; Saranillio, Dean Itsuji,; Scott, Ellen C.,; Wallenberg, Louise,
• HerausgeberIn: Konzett, Delia Malia Caparoso,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.) :; 32 b-w photographs

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their own ideological grain, reveal contradictions and tensions in Hollywood’s task of erecting normative cultural standards? How do some films perhaps knowingly undermine their inherent ideology by opening a field of conflicting and competing intersecting identities? The challenge set out in this volume is to revisit well-known films in search for a narrative not exclusively constituted by the Hollywood formula and to answer the questions: What lies beyond the frame? What elements contradict a film’s sustained illusion of a normative world? Where do films betray their own ideology and most importantly what intersectional spaces of identity do they reveal or conceal?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part 1. HOLLYWOOD FORMULAS -- 1 Daydreams of Society -- 2 The Death of Lon Chaney -- 3 MGM’s Sleeping Lion -- 4 Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings -- Part 2. GENRE AND RACE IN CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD -- 5 “A Queer, Strangled Look” -- 6 By Herself -- 7 Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships -- 8 The Egotistical Sublime -- Part 3. RACE AND ETHNICITY IN POST–WORLD WAR II HOLLYWOOD -- 9 Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas -- 10 Hawai‘i Statehood, Indigeneity, and Go for Broke! (1951) -- 11 Savage Whiteness -- 12 Rita Moreno’s Hair -- Part 4. INTERSECTIONALITY, HOLLYWOOD, AND CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE -- 13 “Everything Glee in ‘America’ ” -- 14 Hip-Hop “Hearts” Ballet -- 15 Fakin’ da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017) -- 16 “Let Us Roam the Night Together” -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index