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Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex and Stardom (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States) - Hardcover
Examines why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920s to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000s, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. It argues that a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous, and introduces the concepts of 'inbetween-ness' and 'racial mobility' to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film.
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"What a wonderful project! This book magnificently centerstages how dance in Hollywood constitutes a cultural space in which Latina stars turn their performance into the ultimate expression of/for agency and empowerment. Let the rhythm take you over! Go girls!"--Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez "Mount Holyoke College "
"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics."--Mary Beltrán "author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St "
"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina."--Rosa-Linda Fregoso "author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland "
"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended."--Choice
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"A well-researched, engaging book that expands our understanding of the shaping of the Hollywood Latina, and of Latinas in the national imaginary, through analysis of dance and embodiment in these dynamics."--Mary Beltrán "author of Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meanings of Film and TV St "
"In this fresh examination, Priscilla Peña Ovalle convincingly probes the racial dynamics and sexual politics that shape the paradoxical figure of the dancing Hollywood Latina."--Rosa-Linda Fregoso "author of meXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderland "
"A good resource for those interested in dance, film, and media studies and in gender, race and sexualities studies. Recommended."--Choice
PRISCILLA PE A OVALLE is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of Oregon.
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- PublisherRutgers University Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0813548802
- ISBN 13 9780813548807
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom (Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the)
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