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Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States)
Professor Priscilla Peña Ovalle
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Paperback. Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; ASD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 331.
Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing and manipulating these stereotypical fantasies.
Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, Priscilla ... Read more
Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing and manipulating these stereotypical fantasies.
Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film, Priscilla ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States
Number of Pages
194
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813548814
SKU
V9780813548814
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About Professor Priscilla Peña Ovalle
PRISCILLA PEÑA OVALLE is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of Oregon.
Reviews for Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States)
"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!"
Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
Mount Holyoke College
"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the ... Read more
Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez
Mount Holyoke College
"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the ... Read more