Off-white Hollywood
Subtitle: American culture and ethnic female stardom
By: Diane Negra.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Minorities in motion pictures; Women in motion pictures; European Americans -- Ethnic identity; Actresses -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hollywood film and the narrativization of ethnic femininity; title: The wearing of the green : Irishness as a promotion discourse in the career of Colleen Moore; title: Immigrant stardom in imperial America : Pola Negri and the problem of typology; title: Sonja Henie in Hollywood : whiteness, athleticism, and Americanization; title: Ethnicity and the interventionist imagination : domesticity, exoticism, and scandal in the persona of Hedy Lamarr; title: Marisa Tomei and the fantasy of ethnicity; title: Stardom, corporeality, and ethnic indeterminancy : Cher's disrupted/disruptive body.