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

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, re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.) :; 32 b-w photographs
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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