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Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity / ed. by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (314 p.) : 32 b-w photographsContent type:
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  • 9780813599359
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43653 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.I34 .H655 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part 1. HOLLYWOOD FORMULAS -- 1 Daydreams of Society -- 2 The Death of Lon Chaney -- 3 MGM’s Sleeping Lion -- 4 Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings -- Part 2. GENRE AND RACE IN CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD -- 5 “A Queer, Strangled Look” -- 6 By Herself -- 7 Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships -- 8 The Egotistical Sublime -- Part 3. RACE AND ETHNICITY IN POST–WORLD WAR II HOLLYWOOD -- 9 Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas -- 10 Hawai‘i Statehood, Indigeneity, and Go for Broke! (1951) -- 11 Savage Whiteness -- 12 Rita Moreno’s Hair -- Part 4. INTERSECTIONALITY, HOLLYWOOD, AND CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE -- 13 “Everything Glee in ‘America’ ” -- 14 Hip-Hop “Hearts” Ballet -- 15 Fakin’ da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017) -- 16 “Let Us Roam the Night Together” -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their own ideological grain, reveal contradictions and tensions in Hollywood’s task of erecting normative cultural standards? How do some films perhaps knowingly undermine their inherent ideology by opening a field of conflicting and competing intersecting identities? The challenge set out in this volume is to revisit well-known films in search for a narrative not exclusively constituted by the Hollywood formula and to answer the questions: What lies beyond the frame? What elements contradict a film’s sustained illusion of a normative world? Where do films betray their own ideology and most importantly what intersectional spaces of identity do they reveal or conceal?
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part 1. HOLLYWOOD FORMULAS -- 1 Daydreams of Society -- 2 The Death of Lon Chaney -- 3 MGM’s Sleeping Lion -- 4 Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings -- Part 2. GENRE AND RACE IN CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD -- 5 “A Queer, Strangled Look” -- 6 By Herself -- 7 Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships -- 8 The Egotistical Sublime -- Part 3. RACE AND ETHNICITY IN POST–WORLD WAR II HOLLYWOOD -- 9 Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas -- 10 Hawai‘i Statehood, Indigeneity, and Go for Broke! (1951) -- 11 Savage Whiteness -- 12 Rita Moreno’s Hair -- Part 4. INTERSECTIONALITY, HOLLYWOOD, AND CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE -- 13 “Everything Glee in ‘America’ ” -- 14 Hip-Hop “Hearts” Ballet -- 15 Fakin’ da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017) -- 16 “Let Us Roam the Night Together” -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their own ideological grain, reveal contradictions and tensions in Hollywood’s task of erecting normative cultural standards? How do some films perhaps knowingly undermine their inherent ideology by opening a field of conflicting and competing intersecting identities? The challenge set out in this volume is to revisit well-known films in search for a narrative not exclusively constituted by the Hollywood formula and to answer the questions: What lies beyond the frame? What elements contradict a film’s sustained illusion of a normative world? Where do films betray their own ideology and most importantly what intersectional spaces of identity do they reveal or conceal?

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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