1st Edition
Off-White Hollywood American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom
By Diane Negra
Copyright 2001
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
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).
