Nordic exposures
Subtitle: Scandinavian identities in classical Hollywood cinema
By: Arne Lunde.
Series: New directions in Scandinavian studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780295990453
Subjects: National characteristics, Scandinavian, in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: x, 221 p. : 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racializing Vinland: the Nordic conquest of whiteness in technicolor's The viking; title: Scandinavian/American whiteface: ethnic whiteness and assimilation in Victor Sjöström's He who gets slapped; title: Hotel Imperial: the border crossings of Mauritz Stiller; title: Garbo talks! Scandinavians, the talkie revolution, and the crisis of foreign voice; title: Charlie Chan is Swedish: the Asian racial masquerades and Nordic otherness of Warner Oland; title: Two-faced women: Hollywood's and Third Reich cinema's war for the Nordic female star.