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Arne Olav Lunde - Nordic Exposures - 9780295990453 - V9780295990453
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Nordic Exposures

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Description for Nordic Exposures Paperback. Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Series: New Directions in Scandinavian Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 41 illus. BIC Classification: 1DN; 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.

Nordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars. Scandinavian identities could seem mutable and constructed at moments, while at other times they were deployed as representatives of an essential, biological, and natural category. As Northern European Protestants, Scandinavian immigrants and emigres assimilated into the mainstream rights and benefits of white American identity with comparatively few barriers or obstacles. Yet Arne Lunde demonstrates that far from simply manifesting a normative unmarked whiteness, Scandinavianness in mass-immigration America and in Hollywood cinema of the twentieth century could be hyperwhite, provisionally off-white, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in Scandinavian Studies
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295990453
SKU
V9780295990453
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About Arne Olav Lunde
Arne Lunde is assistant professor of Scandinavian studies at UCLA.

Reviews for Nordic Exposures
"Nordic Exposures is a revealing and often amusing examination of racial questions where we least expect them to arise."
Agust Guomundsson
Scandinavian-Canadian Studies
"This study does more than extend to another group the already voluminous literature condemning Hollywood's treatment of minorities. . . . Lunde concentrates on a more intriguing issue: the way Scandinavian identity conveyed a ... Read more

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