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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461465403321

Autore

Ovalle Priscilla Peña <1976->

Titolo

Dance and the Hollywood Latina [[electronic resource] ] : race, sex, and stardom / / Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-36995-8

9786613369956

0-8135-5025-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Latinidad

Disciplina

791.43/652968073

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-169) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mobilizing the Latina myth -- Dolores Del Rio dances across the imperial color line -- Carmen Miranda shakes it for the nation -- Rita Hayworth and the cosmetic borders of race -- Rita Moreno, the critically acclaimed "all-round ethnic" -- Jennifer Lopez, racial mobility, and the new urban/Latina commodity.

Sommario/riassunto

Dance and the Hollywood Latina asks why every Latina star in Hollywood history, from Dolores Del Rio in the 1920's to Jennifer Lopez in the 2000's, began as a dancer or danced onscreen. While cinematic depictions of women and minorities have seemingly improved, a century of representing brown women as natural dancers has popularized the notion that Latinas are inherently passionate and promiscuous. Yet some Latina actresses became stars by embracing and manipulating these stereotypical fantasies. Introducing the concepts of "inbetween-ness" and "racial mobility" to further illuminate how racialized sexuality and the dancing female body operate in film,



Priscilla Peña Ovalle focuses on the careers of Dolores Del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Carmen Miranda, Rita Moreno, and Jennifer Lopez. Dance and the Hollywood Latina helps readers better understand how the United States grapples with race, gender, and sexuality through dancing bodies on screen.