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Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom

By Diane Negra
231 pages

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Contributors:: Diane Negra
Publisher:: Routledge
Place of publication:: London
Publication year:: 2001
Subjects:: Minorities In Motion Pictures
Women In Motion Pictures
European Americans--Ethnic Identity
Actresses--United States--Biography

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Off-White Hollywood investigates how the 'ethnicity' of white European-American actresses has played a key role in the mythology of American identity and nation building. Negra focuses on key stars of the silent - Colleen Moore and Pola Negri - classical - Sonja Henie and Hedy Lamarr - and post-classical eras - Marisa Tomei and Cher - to demonstrate how each star illuminates aspects of ethnicity, gender, consumerism, and class at work in American culture.

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Title Page iii
Contents v
Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
1 - Hollywood Film and the Narrativization of Ethnic Femininity 1
2 - The Wearing of the Green 25
3 - Immigrant Stardom in Imperial America 55
4 - Sonja Henie in Hollywood 84
5 - Ethnicity and the Interventionist Imagination 103
6 - Marisa Tomei and the Fantasy of Ethnicity 136
7 - Stardom, Corporeality and Ethnic Indeterminacy 164
Notes 182
Bibliography 200
Index 215

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