Dance and the Hollywood Latina : Race, Sex and Stardom.
Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history began as a dancer or danced onscreen. Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, this...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press
2010.
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| Serier: | Latinidad.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5hj01f |
| Summary: | Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history began as a dancer or danced onscreen. Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, this book focuses on the careers of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Carmen Miranda, Rita Moreno, and Jennifer Lopez and helps readers better understand how the United States grapples with race, gender, and sexuality through dancing bodies on screen. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813550251 0813550254 9780813548807 0813548802 9780813548814 0813548810 |