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    Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity

    Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett (Edited by), Ruth Mayer (Contributions by), Alice Maurice (Contributions by), Ellen C. Scott (Contributions by), Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett (Contributions by), Jonna Eagle (Contributions by), Ryan Jay Friedman (Contributions by), Charlene Regester (Contributions by), Matthias Konzett (Contributions by), Chris Cagle (Contributions by), Dean Itsuji Saranillio (Contributions by), Graham Cassano (Contributions by), Priscilla Peña Ovalle (Contributions by), Ernesto R Acevedo-Muñoz (Contributions by), Mary Beltrán (Contributions by), Jun Okada (Contributions by), Louise Wallenberg (Contributions by)

    9780813599311

    Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2019

    370 pages, 32 b-w photographs
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.513 kg

    "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."
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    "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)

    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?
     

    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 PeÑ
    a 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-MuÑ
    oz
    Hip Hop “
    Hearts”
    Ballet:  Utopic Multiculturalism and the Step Up Dance Films
    Mary BeltrÁ
    n
    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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