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9%OFFLinda B. Hall - Dolores del Río: Beauty in Light and Shade - 9780804799461 - V9780804799461
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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 Paperback. 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. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Dolores del Rio'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

Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804799461
SKU
V9780804799461
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About Linda B. Hall
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 bases her work on a close study of del Rio's personal papers, contemporary publications about her, and del Rio's filmography . . . Hall provides historical context to help readers make sense of the opportunities and constraints that del Rio faced. Hall gives a nuanced account of how del Rio's personal and professional lives meshed, explaining how she navigated ... Read more

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