Hollywood at the intersection of race and identity / edited by Delia Malia Caparoso Konzett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konzett, Delia Malia Caparoso

Contributor:

Konzett, Delia Maria Caparoso, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology) in motion pictures.

Race in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Intersectionality (Sociology)--United States.

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity explores the ways Hollywood represents race, gender, class, and nationality at the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and its productive tensions. This collection of essays asks to what degree can a close critical analysis of films, that is, reading them against their own ideological grain, reveal contradictions and tensions in Hollywood’s task of erecting normative cultural standards? How do some films perhaps knowingly undermine their inherent ideology by opening a field of conflicting and competing intersecting identities? The challenge set out in this volume is to revisit well-known films in search for a narrative not exclusively constituted by the Hollywood formula and to answer the questions: What lies beyond the frame? What elements contradict a film’s sustained illusion of a normative world? Where do films betray their own ideology and most importantly what intersectional spaces of identity do they reveal or conceal?

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction

Part 1. HOLLYWOOD FORMULAS

1 Daydreams of Society

2 The Death of Lon Chaney

3 MGM’s Sleeping Lion

4 Yellowface, Minstrelsy, and Hollywood Happy Endings

Part 2. GENRE AND RACE IN CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD

5 “A Queer, Strangled Look”

6 By Herself

7 Disruptive Mother-Daughter Relationships

8 The Egotistical Sublime

Part 3. RACE AND ETHNICITY IN POST–WORLD WAR II HOLLYWOOD

9 Women and Class Mobility in Classical Hollywood’s Immigrant Dramas

10 Hawai‘i Statehood, Indigeneity, and Go for Broke! (1951)

11 Savage Whiteness

12 Rita Moreno’s Hair

Part 4. INTERSECTIONALITY, HOLLYWOOD, AND CONTEMPORARY POPULAR CULTURE

13 “Everything Glee in ‘America’ ”

14 Hip-Hop “Hearts” Ballet

15 Fakin’ da Funk (1997) and Gook (2017)

16 “Let Us Roam the Night Together”

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8135-9935-0

OCLC:

1124761865