This collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.
This collection of essays examines intersectional identities of race/ethnicity, gender/sexuality, class, and nationality in Hollywood cinema. Intersectionality, traditionally associated with social activism, is used here more liberally as a critical and analytic tool to explore films, expressing multiple points of views and multiple ways of looking at films.
DELIA MALIA CAPAROSO KONZETT is a professor of English, cinema, and women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. She is the author of Ethnic Modernisms and Hollywood’s Hawaii: Race, Nation, and War. She has published in numerous critical journals on film, focusing on race, imperialism, and aesthetics. Her present work discusses race in Hollywood and its representation in mass culture.
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Introduction
Hollywood Formulas: Codes, Masks, Genre, and Minstrelsy
Daydreams of Society: Class and Gender Performances in the Cinema of the Late 1910s Ruth Mayer The Death of Lon Chaney: Masculinity, Race, and the Authenticity of Disguise Alice Maurice MGM’s Sleeping Lion: Hollywood Regulation of the Washingtonian Slave in The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Ellen C. Scott Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings: The Black Camel (1931), Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), and Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) Delia Malia Konzett Genre and Race in Classical Hollywood “A Queer, Strangled Look”: Race, Gender, and Morality in The Ox-Bow Incident Jonna Eagle By Herself: Intersectionality, African American Specialty Performers, and Eleanor Powell Ryan Jay Friedman Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships: Peola’s Racial Masquerade in Imitation of Life (1934) and Stella’s Class Masquerade in Stella Dallas (1937) Charlene Regester
The Egotistical Sublime: Film Noir and Whiteness Matthias Konzett Race and Ethnicity in Post-World War II Hollywood
Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas Chris Cagle Orientalism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Go for Broke! (1951) Dean Itsuji Saranillio Savage Whiteness: The dialectic of racial desire in The Young Savages (1961) Graham Cassano Rita Moreno’s Hair Priscilla Peña Ovalle Intersectionality, Hollywood, and Contemporary Popular Culture “Everything Glee in ‘America’”: Context, Race, and Identity Politics in the Glee Appropriation of West Side Story Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz Hip Hop “Hearts” Ballet: Utopic Multiculturalism and the Step Up Dance Films Mary Beltrán Fakin da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017): Exploring Black/Asian Relations in the Asian American Hood Film Jun Okada “Let Us Roam the Night Together”: On Articulation and Representation in Moonlight (2016) and Tongues Untied (1989) Louise Wallenberg
Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
Hollywood Formulas: Codes, Masks, Genre, and Minstrelsy
Daydreams of Society: Class and Gender Performances in the Cinema of the Late 1910s Ruth Mayer The Death of Lon Chaney: Masculinity, Race, and the Authenticity of Disguise Alice Maurice MGM’s Sleeping Lion: Hollywood Regulation of the Washingtonian Slave in The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Ellen C. Scott Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings: The Black Camel (1931), Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), and Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) Delia Malia Konzett Genre and Race in Classical Hollywood “A Queer, Strangled Look”: Race, Gender, and Morality in The Ox-Bow Incident Jonna Eagle By Herself: Intersectionality, African American Specialty Performers, and Eleanor Powell Ryan Jay Friedman Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships: Peola’s Racial Masquerade in Imitation of Life (1934) and Stella’s Class Masquerade in Stella Dallas (1937) Charlene Regester
The Egotistical Sublime: Film Noir and Whiteness Matthias Konzett Race and Ethnicity in Post-World War II Hollywood
Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas Chris Cagle Orientalism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Go for Broke! (1951) Dean Itsuji Saranillio Savage Whiteness: The dialectic of racial desire in The Young Savages (1961) Graham Cassano Rita Moreno’s Hair Priscilla Peña Ovalle Intersectionality, Hollywood, and Contemporary Popular Culture “Everything Glee in ‘America’”: Context, Race, and Identity Politics in the Glee Appropriation of West Side Story Ernesto R. Acevedo-Muñoz Hip Hop “Hearts” Ballet: Utopic Multiculturalism and the Step Up Dance Films Mary Beltrán Fakin da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017): Exploring Black/Asian Relations in the Asian American Hood Film Jun Okada “Let Us Roam the Night Together”: On Articulation and Representation in Moonlight (2016) and Tongues Untied (1989) Louise Wallenberg
Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
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