White Gypsies
Subtitle: race and stardom in Spanish musical films
By: Eva Woods Peiró
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780816645848; 9780816645855
Subjects: Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures; Ethnicity in motion pictures; Romanies; Romanies in motion pictures; Musical films; History and criticism; Race in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : modernity, race, and visibility; title: Time, racial otherness, and digressions in silent films of the 1920s; title: Female spectacle in the display case of the roaring Twenties; title: Racing for modernity : from black jazz to white Gypsy folklore; title: The gypsy "problem" : law and spatial assimilation; title: The Spanish solution : the folklorica and the fuehrer; title: Recycling folkloricas : a queer Spain.