Description
Book SynopsisNordic Exposures explores how Scandinavian whiteness and ethnicity functioned in classical Hollywood cinema between and during the two world wars.
Trade Review"Nordic Exposures is a revealing and often amusing examination of racial questions where we least expect them to arise."
-- Agust Guomundsson * Scandinavian-Canadian Studies *
"This study does more than extend to another group the already voluminous literature condemning Hollywood's treatment of minorities. . . . Lunde concentrates on a more intriguing issue: the way Scandinavian identity conveyed a cluster of concepts about whiteness."
* Choice *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Racializing Vinland: The Nordic Conquest of Whiteness in Technicolor’s “The Viking”
2. Scandinavian/American Whiteface: Ethnic Whiteness and Assimilation in Victor Sjostrom’s “He Who Gets Slapped”
3. Hotel Imperial: The Border Crossings of Mauritz Stiller
4. Garbo Talks: Scandinavians, the Talkie Revolution, and the Crisis of Foreign Voice
5. Charlie Chan is Swedish: The Asian Racial Masquerades and Nordic Otherness of Warner Oland
6. Two-Faced Women: Hollywood’s and Third Reich Cinema’s War for the Nordic Female Star
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
