Off-white Hollywood : American culture and ethnic female stardom /
Negra, Diane,1966-
London ; New York : Routledge,
2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Hollywood film and the narrativization of ethnic femininity -- The wearing of the green : Irishness as a promotion discourse in the career of Colleen Moore --Immigrant stardom in imperial America : Pola Negri and the problem of typology -- Sonja Henie in Hollywood : whiteness, athleticism, and Americanization -- Ethnicity and the interventionist imagination : domesticity, exoticism, and scandal in the persona of Hedy Lamarr -- Marisa Tomei and the fantasy of ethnicity -- Stardom, corporeality, and ethnic indeterminancy : Cher's disrupted/disruptive body.
Minorities in motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
European Americans
Actresses