Dance and the Hollywood Latina - Race, Sex and Stardom

Informationen zum Autor PRISCILLA PEÑA OVALLE is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of Oregon.   Klappentext 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 natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing and manipulating these stereotypical fantasies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements 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

Product details

• Authors: Priscilla Pe Ovalle, Priscilla Pena Ovalle, Priscilla Peña Ovalle
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780813548814
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4881-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet