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Eva Woods Peiró - White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals - 9780816645848 - V9780816645848
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White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals

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Description for White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DSE; APF; AVGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .

Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric musical films of the 1940s and ’50s are inextricably tied to anxious concerns about race—especially, but not only, Gypsiness.

Focusing on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century Spain—with multifaceted readings of the cinematic construction of class, gender, and sexuality—Eva Woods Peiró explores how these popular films allowed audiences to negotiate and imaginatively, at times problematically, resolve complex social contradictions. The intricate ... Read more

White Gypsies reveals how these imaginary individuals constituted a veritable cultural barometer of how racial thinking was projected and understood across a broad swath of popular Spanish cinema.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816645848
SKU
V9780816645848
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99-1

About Eva Woods Peiró
Eva Woods Peiró is associate professor of Hispanic studies and director of the Media Studies Program at Vassar College.

Reviews for White Gypsies: Race and Stardom in Spanish Musicals
"White Gypsies enriches our understanding of the material history of the pre-, post-, and civil war periods, broadens Spanish cinema studies to focus on more popular forms of film entertainment, and combines a novel attention to race with nuanced readings of the intersections of the cinematographic construction of class, gender, and sexuality during the first half of the twentieth century." ... Read more

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