Nordic Exposures - Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Arne Lunde Klappentext Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Zusammenfassung Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Racializing Vinland: The Nordic Conquest of Whiteness in Technicolor's "The Viking" 2. Scandinavian/American Whiteface: Ethnic Whiteness and Assimilation in Victor Sjostrom's "He Who Gets Slapped" 3. Hotel Imperial: The Border Crossings of Mauritz Stiller 4. Garbo Talks: Scandinavians, the Talkie Revolution, and the Crisis of Foreign Voice 5. Charlie Chan is Swedish: The Asian Racial Masquerades and Nordic Otherness of Warner Oland 6. Two-Faced Women: Hollywood's and Third Reich Cinema's War for the Nordic Female Star Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Arne Lunde, Arne Olav Lunde
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2010
• EAN: 9780295990453
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99045-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Directions in Scandinavian Studies; New Directions in Scandinavian; New Directions in Scandinavian Studies; New Directions in Scandinavian; Nordic Exposures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet