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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"Wide ranging and critically deep,
Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity addresses the persistence of race in Hollywood film with considerable implications for the intersection of racism, misogyny, and identity we see today on big and small screens alike."
-- Daniel Bernardi * editor of Race in American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation *
"This is a timely collection - forthright, expansive, and right up to date. Commonly situated at the margins of discussions of race and identity, intersectionality here is placed at the center, crucial to understanding Hollywood's uneven engagement with race, social justice, and ethics. These rigorous and generous readings of key moments across cinema history reveal Hollywood encountering and marking more fluid senses of identity than usually credited to popular film. In all this book shows how, in bell hooks's terms, Hollywood can 'make culture' in problematic, revealing, and surprisingly anticipatory ways." -- Jeffrey Geiger * author of American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation *
"Konzett deserves thanks for curating another must-have book on cinema studies. Highly recommended." * Choice *
"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *
"Those interested in identity politics and representation in film and media would find this helpful." * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
