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Linda Hall (Ed.) - Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade - 9780804784078 - V9780804784078
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Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade

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Description for Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade Hardback. This comprehensive biography of Dolores del Rio considers how her enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally, illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. Num Pages: 376 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.

Dolores del Río's enormously successful career in Hollywood, in Mexico, and internationally illuminates issues of race, ethnicity, and gender through the lenses of beauty and celebrity. She and her husband left Mexico in 1925, as both their well-to-do families suffered from the economic downturn that followed the Mexican Revolution. Far from being stigmatized as a woman of color, she was acknowledged as the epitome of beauty in the Hollywood of the 1920s and early 1930s. While she insisted upon her ethnicity, she was nevertheless coded white by the film industry and its fans, and she appeared for more than a ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804784078
SKU
V9780804784078
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Ref
99-50

About Linda Hall (Ed.)
Linda B. Hall is Distinguished Professor of History and Regents Professor at the University of New Mexico.

Reviews for Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade
"Hall has created a well-researched, readable biography of a major international star, first in Hollywood, then, later, in her native Mexico . . . Highly recommended."
J.M. Welsh
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"Linda Hall provides a wonderfully written and compelling biography of one of the most famous and beautiful women of the twentieth century: actress Dolores del Río."
Cynthia ... Read more

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