Dance and the Hollywood Latina
Subtitle: race, sex, and stardom
By: Priscilla Peña Ovalle.
Series: Latinidad--transnational cultures in the United States
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813548807; 9780813548814
Subjects: Hispanic Americans in motion pictures; Hispanic Americans in the motion picture industry; Hispanic American motion picture actors and actresses; Dance in motion pictures, television, etc. -- United States; Race in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mobilizing the Latina myth; title: Dolores Del Rio dances across the imperial color line; title: Carmen Miranda shakes it for the nation; title: Rita Hayworth and the cosmetic borders of race; title: Rita Moreno, the critically acclaimed "all-round ethnic"; title: Jennifer Lopez, racial mobility, and the new urban/Latina commodity.