White Gypsies : race and stardom in Spanish musical films / Eva Woods Peiró.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
- Summary:
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- Little has been written about the Spanish film musical, a genre usually associated with the early Franco dictatorship and dismissed by critics as reactionary, escapist fare. A timely and valuable corrective, White Gypsies shows how the Spanish folkloric musical films of the 1940s and '50s are inextricably tied to anxieties about race-especially, but not only, related to Gypsies.
- Focusing on the processes of identity formation in twentieth-century Spain with multifaceted readings or class, gender, and sexuality, Eva Woods Peiró explores how these popular films allowed audiences to negotiate and imaginatively (at times problematically) resolve complex social contradictions. She reveals the intricate interweaving of race and modernity in her scrutiny of a striking phenomenon: how the musicals progressively whitened their stars even as their story lines became increasingly Andalusianized and Gypsified. Book jacket.
- Contents:
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- Introduction : modernity, race, and visibility
- Time, racial otherness, and digressions in silent films of the 1920s
- Female spectacle in the display case of the roaring Twenties
- Racing for modernity : from black jazz to white Gypsy folklore
- The gypsy "problem" : law and spatial assimilation
- The Spanish solution : the folklorica and the fuehrer
- Recycling folkloricas : a queer Spain.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
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- 9780816645848
- 0816645841
- 9780816645855
- 081664585X
- OCLC:
- 745766032
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