Off-White Hollywood

American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-21678-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Negra, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).